Yield Protection / Actual Production History

Product Overview

Understanding Yield Protection / Actual Production History Insurance

Yield Protection / Actual Production History is an insurance product specifically designed to protect farmers against losses resulting from reduced crop yields caused by various perils. It offers financial compensation to farmers when their yields fall below predetermined levels due to factors such as drought, flood, hail, frost, disease, or other unforeseen circumstances.

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Benefits

Production-based coverage protects the producer against a yield loss.

Guarantee

Approved Yield x selected level x price.

Prices

Yield Protection — 55–100% of commodity contract traded on specified commodity exchange.
Actual Production History — 55-100% of RMA-established price (for crops where there is no commodity exchange price provision).

Coverage Level

CAT, 50%, 55%, 60%, 65% 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%.

Eligible Crops

Plans may be available on barley, canola/rapeseed, corn, dry beans, forage production, grain sorghum, hybrid seed corn, millet, oats, popcorn, rye, soybeans, sugar beets, sunflowers and wheat.

Units

Enterprise, basic and optional.

Losses

Paid when Actual Yield is less than the Production Guarantee due to a covered peril.

Additional Coverages

At any level of coverage over CAT, late planting, prevented planting and replant coverage are part of the policy. High-risk land rates and written agreements are available.
High-risk land rates and written agreements are available.
If enrolled in Price Loss Coverage (PLC), the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) can be added to a YP policy. It adds area-based coverage to individual insurance plans.

Available to all qualifying producers regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or family status.

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Trigger Yield Calculator

Trigger yields assist producers with crop insurance and risk management decisions. Understanding what will trigger loss payments is an important part of choosing the correct level of crop insurance coverage.