Lawmakers should put 10 risk management issues at the top of their list when deciding how to finalize the farm bill, Tom Zacharias, the president of National Crop Insurance Services, an industry research group, and Keith Collins, a NCIS consultant and former Agriculture Department economist, have written in an article in Choices, the magazine of the Agriculture and Applied Economics Association.

• Choices — Ten Considerations Regarding the Role of Crop Insurance in the Agricultural Safety Net