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Texas State Profile - 2016

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Crop Insured Acres Total Acres Percent Insured
Annual Forage 162,508 N/A N/A
Barley 18,492 33,428 55%
Beans - Dry and Processing 15,935 27,000 59%
Cabbage 1,084 3,156 34%
Canola 17,184 21,380 80%
Citrus Fruit 17,616 24,500 72%
Corn and Hybrid Corn Seed 2,521,757 2,796,195 90%
Cotton and Long Staple Cotton 5,508,344 5,589,792 99%
Cucumbers 3,179 6,206 51%
Grain Sorghum 1,629,172 1,792,702 91%
Grapes 883 3,621 24%
Oats 23,659 274,914 9%
Onions 18,398 18,398 100%
Peaches 1,001 1,001 100%
Peanuts 163,590 300,877 54%
Pecans 26,264 48,474 54%
Potatoes 9,736 18,632 52%
Rice 191,628 195,000 98%
Rye 1,564 94,835 2%
Soybeans 153,661 157,474 98%
Sugarcane 37,648 39,376 96%
Sunflowers 29,780 42,431 70%
Wheat 3,755,624 4,647,182 81%
Crop Pilot Programs
Program County Availability Insured Acres Total Liability
Apiculture All Counties N/A $13,179,081
Cottonseed Endorsement All Counties with Cotton Policies N/A $266,739,333
Hybrid Seed Rice Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Jackson, Jefferson, Lavaca, Liberty, Matagorda, Victoria, and Wharton County 11,407 $13,456,550
Hybrid Sorghum Seed Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Crosby, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Floyd, Hale, Hansford, Hartley, Lamb, Lubbock, Moore, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Sherman, and Swisher County 20,264 $8,363,672
Pasture, Rangeland, Forage All Counties 23,878,655 $507,576,350
Sesame Bee, Cameron, Castro, Colorado, Crosby, Dawson, Floyd, Gaines, Hale, Hardeman, Haskell, Hidalgo, Hockley, Jim Wells, Jones, Kleberg, Lamb, Live Oak, Lubbock, Matagorda, Medina, Nueces, Refugio, Runnels, San Patricio, Swisher, Terry, Tom Green, Uvalde, Wharton, Wichita, Wilbarger, Willacy, and Zavala County 11,187 $1,225,278
Silage Sorghum Dallam, Sherman, Hansford, Ochiltree, Lipscomb, Hartley, Moore, Hutchinson, Roberts, Hemphill, Oldham, Potter, Carson, Gray, Wheeler, Deaf Smith, Randall, Armstrong, Donley, Collingsworth, Parmer, Castro, Swisher, Briscoe, Hall, Childress, Bailey, Lamb, Hale, Floyd, Motley, Cottle, Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock, Crosby, Dickens, King, Yoakum, Terry, Lynn, Garza, Kent, Stonewall, Gaines, Dawson, Borden, Scurry, and Fisher County. 27,417 $6,426,904
Whole Farm Revenue Protection All Counties N/A $8,200,919
Dollar Liability Program
Total Dollar Liability
Citrus Trees – Dollars $102,821,190
Nursery – Dollars $89,593,285

15 Year Crop Insurance History for Texas

YearPolicies Earning 
Premium
 
Net Acres Insured
 
LiabilityGross Premium
 
LossesLoss Ratio
 
2002 
 
89,566 
 
15,282,499 
 
$1,889,589,400 
 
$302,477,721 
 
$364,785,090 
 
1.21 
 
2003 
 
86,803 
 
15,055,566 
 
$2,035,481,487 
 
$332,337,856 
 
$452,036,573 
 
1.36 
 
2004 
 
79,734 
 
14,283,352 
 
$2,177,320,135 
 
$368,051,090 
 
$195,872,959 
 
0.53 
 
2005 
 
74,362 
 
13,605,519 
 
$1,989,626,437 
 
$315,769,730 
 
$169,884,282 
 
0.54 
 
2006 
 
69,269 
 
13,746,366 
 
$2,371,199,980 
 
$400,149,348 
 
$618,436,065 
 
1.55 
 
2007 
 
76,883 
 
34,334,347 
 
$2,686,400,259 
 
$468,635,522 
 
$176,009,273 
 
0.38 
 
2008 
 
75,724 
 
33,265,516 
 
$3,326,225,554 
 
$604,278,623 
 
$767,535,248 
 
1.27 
 
2009 
 
77,383 
 
35,427,869 
 
$3,331,628,525 
 
$662,744,583 
 
$898,130,817 
 
1.36 
 
2010 
 
73,621 
 
32,636,933 
 
$3,236,435,782 
 
$627,085,494 
 
$236,065,859 
 
0.38 
 
2011 
 
71,473 
 
37,089,088 
 
$5,481,197,260 
 
$1,098,765,078 
 
$2,590,099,125 
 
2.36 
 
2012 
 
76,993 
 
48,250,497 
 
$5,241,853,019 
 
$1,082,851,734 
 
$1,420,443,953 
 
1.31 
 
2013 
 
78,829 
 
45,587,008 
 
$5,098,462,973 
 
$1,075,719,111 
 
$1,547,466,384 
 
1.44 
 
2014 
 
77,453 
 
44,489,106 
 
$4,748,811,428 
 
$980,901,724 
 
$1,081,866,126 
 
1.10 
 
2015 
 
86,144 
 
45,988,387 
 
$4,205,760,948 
 
$919,819,156 
 
$464,342,115 
 
0.50 
 
2016 
 
76,249 
 
38,250,222 
 
$4,331,228,707 
 
$883,568,050 
 
$422,851,675 
 
0.48 
 

Data current as of February 10, 2017. For current data go to RMA’s Summary of Business Tool.

Where to Buy Crop Insurance

All multi-peril crop insurance, including Catastrophic Risk Protection policies, are available from private crop insurance agents. A list of crop insurance agents is available at all USDA service centers and on RMA’s website.

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