Federal Crop Insurance Program

The Natural Resources Defense Council recently released a report that calls for changing the Federal Crop Insurance Program. The Council is particularly interested in finding ways to incentivize practices that reduce risk and lower the cost of taxpayer-subsidized payouts ...

The USDA’s Economic Research Service looked into the ways that climate change could affect the cost of the Federal Crop Insurance Program.  Researchers worked with statistical models to predict crop yields from historical weather data.  They use...