IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/illufd/358502.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Farm Bill Proposals to Enhance Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO)

Author

Listed:
  • Schnitkey, Gary
  • Sherrick, Bruce
  • Zulauf, Carl
  • Paulson, Nick
  • Coppess, Jonathan
  • Baltz, Jim

Abstract

Both the House and Senate versions of the farm bill include proposals to modify Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) insurance. SCO crop insurance provides county-level coverage from the selected coverage level on a farm-level crop insurance product up to a fixed maximum coverage level based on county-level results. This article examines the impacts of the SCO version proposed by the House for corn in McLean County, Illinois. Overall, increasing SCO subsidy levels seems questionable as a policy objective. At best, farmers risk management is improved marginally at high costs to the Federal government. A better focus would be on enhancing the protection of the underlying farm-level product.

Suggested Citation

  • Schnitkey, Gary & Sherrick, Bruce & Zulauf, Carl & Paulson, Nick & Coppess, Jonathan & Baltz, Jim, 2025. "Farm Bill Proposals to Enhance Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO)," farmdoc daily, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, vol. 14(104).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:illufd:358502
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.358502
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/358502/files/fdd060424.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.358502?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:illufd:358502. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dauiuus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.