Policy Spotlight: The Federal Crop Insurance Program

Stephanie A. Mercier and Steve A. Halbrook ()
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Stephanie A. Mercier: Farm Journal Foundation
Steve A. Halbrook: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Chapter Chapter 21 in Agricultural Policy of the United States, 2020, pp 363-376 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter describes the development of the federal crop insurance program, starting as an adjunct program to the parity price supports established in the first few farm bills in the 1930s, initially available only to wheat and cotton farmers in a few regions. It became a nationwide program in the 1980s, and continued to expand its reach in the 1990s and 2000s as the federal government picked up an increasing share of farmers’ premium costs. Today, the annual cost of the crop insurance program, which covered 380 million acres of cropland and pasture in 2019, typically exceeds the cost of all other farm safety net programs combined.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36452-6_21

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