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  • What's Cropping Up
    National Crop Insurance Services — January 2012
    With claims still streaming in — only an estimated 81 percent of expected claims have been finalized — crop insurance companies have already paid out a record $9.1 billion in indemnity payments to America’s farmers in 2011.

  • What's Cropping Up
    National Crop Insurance Services — December 2011
    Crop insurance companies have paid out more than $7.1 billion and climbing in claims so far this year, which makes 2011 second only to 2008’s $8.6 billion in the total value of indemnities paid out to farmers. The combination of several large-scale floods in the Central U.S., record droughts in the southern plains, a strong tropical storm in the Northeast and a hard freeze in Florida set the stage for the widespread agricultural losses.

  • What's Cropping Up
    National Crop Insurance Services — November 2011
    Most would agree that the private sector excels at some tasks while the government is better-suited for others. This melding of the private and public sectors has yielded a crop insurance policy with affordable premiums, personalized risk management solutions and a private delivery system that puts needed monies into the hands of farmers when timing is critical.

  • What's Cropping Up
    National Crop Insurance Services — October 2011
    October 31, 2011 will mark the first time in history that seven billion humans will populate the planet, according to a recent United Nations report. The Executive Director of the UN’s Population Fund called the prediction “both a challenge and an opportunity,” noting that “globally, people are living longer, healthier lives and choosing to have smaller families.”

  • What's Cropping Up
    National Crop Insurance Services — September 2011
    In the President's budget reduction proposal released yesterday, crop insurance and the farmers who both support it and depend on it are once again being asked to shoulder a disproportionate portion of the budget cuts.

  • What's Cropping Up
    National Crop Insurance Services — August 2011
    As the recent budget deal is interpreted and the Farm Bill debate heats up, important members of the House Agriculture Committee are singing the praises of crop insurance and underscoring its prominence as a necessary risk management tool that helps farmers weather adversity.

  • What's Cropping Up
    National Crop Insurance Services — July 2011
    "Crop insurance is a vital part of the farm safety net and has become an integral part of business life for a large majority of American farmers and ranchers," said USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA) Administrator William J. Murphy in testimony before the House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

  • What's Cropping Up
    National Crop Insurance Services — June 2011
    The 2011 crop year continues to face a trifecta of weather-related anomalies that have hit America's heartland and have cast a long shadow over the highly optimistic projections for crop yields and farm incomes.

  • What's Cropping Up
    National Crop Insurance Services — May 2011
    The hopes of the largest and most profitable harvest in U.S. history are being placed into question by a series of historic weather events that are inflicting major damage to America’s agricultural heartland.

  • What's Cropping Up
    National Crop Insurance Services — April 2011
    This inaugural issue of the National Crop Insurance Services' monthly newsletter provides the latest developments in the industry and information on why crop insurance is essential to America's farmers, ranchers and agricultural economy.

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Links

  • The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency (RMA) provides an overview of the crops that are covered and the various programs that are offered through the Federal crop insurance program. Detailed information can be obtained at: http://www.rma.usda.gov/policies

  • National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) is an international not-for-profit organization representing the interests of private crop insurance companies. NCIS member companies write Crop-Hail Insurance; Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI), the federally subsidized risk management program; and, privately developed crop insurance products. Though primarily designed for use by its member companies, the NCIS website is a valuable resource for those who want additional information about crop insurance. http://www.ag-risk.org

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Facts & Figures

In 2011, more than 263 million acres of farmland were protected through the Federal crop insurance program.
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In 2011, the value of the crops insured through the Federal crop insurance program was over $113 billion.
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