2013 AAEA: Crop Insurance and the Farm Bill Symposium

Recent changes in federal farm programs and contemporary farm program proposals highlight an evolving shift in farm policy from income support to risk management. A mix o [...]

Characteristics of farm level yield and revenue loss that is systemic with yield and revenue loss at the county, state, and U.S. level are examined using farm yields from [...]

In 1994, some 56 years after initial authorization, the Federal crop insurance program remained characterized by low enrollment levels. Many argued for increased coverage [...]

Introduction : The context of row crop risk management continues to grow more complex. While the magnitude of price and yield risk changes over time, the development of s [...]

The United States federal government currently subsidizes crop insurance to provide a safety-net to insured farmers. Agricultural economists have debated indirect impacts [...]

This study compares the efficiency of three policy instruments (i.e., crop insurance, establishment cost share, and biomass price subsidy) in promoting energy crop produc [...]

This paper examined the impact of a yield protection crop insurance product on cash rents and land values for a representative Indiana farm. The net return to land and m [...]

Both the House and Senate farm bills include changes to Title I commodity programs and crop insurance programs, including a new shallow loss revenue protection program, a [...]

The US crop insurance program previously used a simple average of equally weighted historical loss cost data to serve as the backbone for estimating crop insurance premiu [...]