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Evaluation of Crop Insurance Choices for Cotton Producers under the 2014 Farm Bill

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  • Luitel, Kishor
  • Knight, Thomas
  • Hudson, Darren

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New crop insurance coverage offered by the 2014 Farm Bill will be available to cotton farmers beginning in 2015. Stacked Income Protection Plan (STAX) and Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) are new crop insurance options, which are designed to protect farmers from shallow losses. STAX is only available for upland cotton producers, while SCO is available for all major farm program crops. The objective of this project is to assess the benefits of the new crop insurance offerings for cotton producers in the Texas High Plains. Representative dry land and mixed, irrigated and dry land farms were developed using consensus evaluations of panels of producers in two distinct areas of the High Plains. Our simulation analysis examined producer welfare benefits of alternative combinations of underlying yield or revenue insurance coverage and STAX or SCO. The results suggest that Revenue Protection combined with STAX is the optimal insurance selection for both risk neutral and risk averse producers.

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  • Luitel, Kishor & Knight, Thomas & Hudson, Darren, 2015. "Evaluation of Crop Insurance Choices for Cotton Producers under the 2014 Farm Bill," 2015 Annual Meeting, January 31-February 3, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia 196882, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:saea15:196882
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.196882
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    1. Devadoss, Stephen & Luckstead, Jeff, 2018. "Production and Moral Hazard Effects of 2014 Cotton Farm Bill Policies," 2018 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2018, Jacksonville, Florida 266763, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
    2. Luitel, Kishor P. & Hudson, Darren & Knight, Thomas O., 2015. "Understanding Cotton Producer’s Crop Insurance Choices Under the 2014 Farm Bill," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 205438, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

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    Agricultural and Food Policy; Production Economics; Risk and Uncertainty;
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