Crop insurance is a widely adopted risk management tool for producers. Depending on a producer’s insurance plan, crop insurance can protect against losses due to yield or revenue. For cotton producers, if they select a crop insurance policy to protect them against the losses for revenue, several insurance plans are available, including Area Revenue Protection, Revenue Protection, and Stacked Income Protection Plan. For each of these insurance plans, producers have the choice of selecting the plan with the harvest price exclusion (HPE) option. The default choices for these crop insurance options are without HPE, in which indemnity payment is determined by crop yield and the higher value among the projected price and the harvest price for the insured year. If producers choose the insurance options with HPE, indemnity payments are determined by crop yield and only the projected price. [READ MORE]
