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Todd Snider works as a crop insurance agent at Western Ag Crop Insurance Services in Bakersfield, California, and has been working hard to provide crop insurance to farmers in California’s Central Valley for more than 13 years. According to Snider, the two main industries within his county are agriculture and oil.
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Almost 100 years ago Stanley Wilson’s ancestors settled in Shafter, California to start their family farm. Since then, the farm has been passed down to Wilson who continues to farm to this very day with the help of his two sons, a son-in-law and several grandchildren. Their operation produces cotton, potatoes, carrots, beans, alfalfa, almonds and raisin grapes.
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Every American farmer today, feeds on average, 155 people. That is roughly a six-fold increase from just five decades ago, when farmers fed just 26 people. Developments in technology, farming practices, education and public policy made this possible.
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By 2050 it has been predicted that the global population will grow 38 percent, reaching 9.6 billion people. With such an expanding population, we rely on farmers across the globe to supply agricultural demands to feed our ever-growing world.
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