Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) took to the Senate floor on Tuesday afternoon calling on his colleagues to vote for a farm bill amendment he introduced with U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). The amendment commissions a pair of studies on the feasibility of insurance programs to protect America’s poultry growers from catastrophic loss, such as disease outbreaks, and from bankruptcies of poultry integrators. The amendment is now part of the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012 (S. 3240), which the Senate is expected to vote later this week.