Federal Crop Insurance
Overview
The federal crop insurance program is a subsidized insurance program that provides financial protection to producers against crop losses caused by natural disasters such as drought or flood. The crop insurance program is authorized by the Federal Crop Insurance Act ("FCIA") "to promote the national welfare by improving the economic stability of agriculture through a sound system of crop insurance and by providing the means for research and experience helpful in devising and establishing such insurance." The regulations implementing the federal crop insurance program are found at 7 C.F.R. §§ 400-499. Read the full overview.
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Disaster Impact and Assistance
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Overview of Crop Policies
List of 2006 Crop Policies
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Overview of Livestock Insurance Policies
Reinsurance Agreements
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History of Crop Insurance Programs
RMA News and Agency Updates
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Soybean Rust Information Site
Crop and Livestock Insurance Information Database
Briefing Room: Farm Risk Management
Briefing Room: Farm and Commodity Policy: Crop Yield and Revenue Insurance
Key Topics: Farm Financial & Risk Management
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ERS Recommended Readings
Why Hasn’t Crop Insurance Eliminated Disaster Assistance? (2005)
Risk Management Tools in Europe: Agricultural Insurance, Futures, and Options (2004)
U.S. Crop Insurance: Premiums, Subsidies, and Participation (2001)
Production and Price Impacts of U.S. Crop Insurance Programs (2001)
The Effects of Federal Crop Insurance Program on Wheat Acreage (2001)
Asymmetric Information in the Market for Yield and Revenue Insurance (2001)
The Agricultural Risk Protection Act: What It Does, What It Means? (2000)
U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee
U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee
U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
Actions Needed to Reduce Program’s Vulnerability to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (2005)
USDA Needs to Improve Oversight of Insurance Companies and Develop a Policy to Address
Any Future Insolvencies (2004)
Crop Insurance: USDA’s Progress in Expanding Insurance for Specialty Crops
(originally published in 2003)
Non-Insured Disaster Assistance Program, and the Domestic Commodity and Other Farm
Programs, 6 Drake J. Agric. L. 141 (2001)