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Supplemental Area Insurance and Basis Risk Measures: Part I

May 5, 2021
Juo-Han Tsay, Nick Paulson, and Gary Schnitkey
The Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) is a new supplemental insurance program introduced this year, providing county coverage from 90% or 95% coverage level down to 86%. The Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) is another county-based policy that can be used, with…
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Crop Insurance Coverage Levels and ECO Use on Corn

May 4, 2021
Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, Carl Zulauf, and Krista Swanson
Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) became available as an add-on to a farm-level crop insurance product in 2021. While available for other plans, we focus on Revenue Protection (RP) in this article. Farmers who purchase Revenue Protection (RP) now have the…
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Case for Ad Hoc Assistance in the Presence of Commodity Programs: MFP 2018

April 29, 2021
Carl Zulauf, Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, and Krista Swanson
The ad hoc Market Facilitation Program (MFP) compensated farms for the estimated loss of exports due to retaliatory tariffs placed on US farm exports by other countries in response to tariffs the US imposed on their exports to the US.…
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Scott Irwin
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The Relationship of USDA Planted Acreage Revisions for Corn and Soybeans to Prevented Plant Acreage

April 28, 2021
Scott Irwin
Several issues related to the March 31st USDA Prospective Plantings report have been examined in recent farmdoc daily articles. These include the historically large size of the market surprise for combined corn and soybean planted acreage in last month’s report,…
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Carl Zulauf
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Recent State Soybean and Corn Yields in Illinois

April 27, 2021
Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, Krista Swanson, and Nick Paulson
For 2020, the state of Illinois had an average soybean yield of 60 bushels per acre and an average corn yield of 192 bushels per acre. Illinois’ exceptional soybean and corn yields since the 2012 drought have caused large increases…
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Ben Brown
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Corn Exports Fuel Demand

April 26, 2021
Ben Brown
Introduction Spring planting continues across the Midwest United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported corn plantings as a percentage of planting expectations of 17 percent for the week of April 25, 2021. Below average late-April temperatures slowed planting…
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Carl Zulauf
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Krista Swanson
Nick Paulson
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Growing Climate Solutions Act Impact on Farmers

April 22, 2021
Krista Swanson, Gary Schnitkey, Sarah Sellars, Nick Paulson, and Carl Zulauf
The Growing Climate Solutions Act, initially drafted in 2020, was reintroduced to the Senate on April 20, 2021. The bill cleared the Senate Agriculture Committee today, April 22, 2021, paving the way to move to the Senate floor. Amid numerous…
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