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Texas State Profile - 2018

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Crops Insured Acres Total Acres Percent Insured
Annual Forage 363,117 N/A N/A
Barley 14,238 23,129 62%
Beans – Dry and Processing 1,916 5,762 33%
Cabbage 1,163 2,749 42%
Canola 12,430 10,918 100%
Citrus Fruit 16,411 2,647 100%
Corn 2,004,427 2,109,820 95%
Cotton and Long Staple Cotton 7,538,152 5,479,277 100%
Cucumbers 1,936 4,722 41%
Grain Sorghum 1,127,051 1,466,968 77%
Grapes 2,099 3,952 53%
Oats 22,795 63,071 36%
Onions 21,812 10,947 100%
Peaches 963 579 100%
Peanuts 136,176 149,814 91%
Pecans 27,256 47,202 58%
Potatoes 9,959 9,582 100%
Rice 165,555 191,515 86%
Soybeans 155,928 165,091 94%
Sugarcane 38,782 39,931 97%
Sunflowers 16,979 23,695 72%
Wheat 2,937,429 3,153,416 93%
Crop Pilot Programs
Program County Availability Insured Acres Total Liability
Apiculture All Counties N/A $13,676,872
Cottonseed Endorsement All Counties with Cotton Policies N/A $351,665,631
Hybrid Seed Rice Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Jackson, Jefferson, Lavaca, Liberty, Matagorda, Victoria, and Wharton County. 15,315 $21,966,620
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. 31,632 $13,666,958
Pasture, Rangeland, Forage All Counties 23,279,970 $526,896,318
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. 27,020 $3,312,432
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. 36,415 $9,434,605
Whole Farm Revenue Protection All Counties N/A $11,745,463
Dollar Liability Program Total Dollar Liability
Citrus Trees – Dollars $109,299,469
Livestock Gross Margin – Dairy Cattle $687,115
Livestock Risk Protection – Fed Cattle $45,171
Livestock Risk Protection – Feeder Cattle $2,048,223
Livestock Risk Protection – Lamb $1,497,006
Nursery – Dollars $89,543,647

15 Year Crop Insurance History for Texas

YearPolicies Earning 
Premium
Net Acres InsuredLiabilityGross PremiumLossesLoss Ratio
2004 
 
79,73414,531,781$2,177,320,135$368,051,090$195,872,9590.53
2005 
 
74,36214,013,578$1,989,626,437$315,769,730$169,884,2820.54
2006 
 
69,26914,672,121$2,371,199,980$400,149,348$618,436,0651.55
2007 
 
76,88335,369,734$2,686,400,259$468,635,522$176,009,2730.38
2008 
 
75,72434,004,779$3,326,225,554$604,278,623$767,535,2481.27
2009 
 
77,38336,129,558$3,331,628,525$662,744,583$898,130,8171.36
2010 
 
73,62133,496,826$3,236,435,782$627,085,494$236,065,8590.38
2011 
 
71,47337,101,512$5,481,197,260$1,098,765,078$2,590,099,1252.36
2012 
 
77,00050,688,267$5,241,658,861$1,082,815,634$1,420,735,1871.31
2013 
 
78,81848,440,999$5,098,332,799$1,075,748,908$1,549,267,0651.44
2014 
 
77,45147,128,218$4,749,280,737$981,118,809$1,084,046,4131.10
201586,39947,764,531$4,245,275,390$928,673,307$572,950,6650.62
2016 
 
76,68641,317,679$4,365,403,797$890,824,967$500,851,4890.56
2017 
 
71,50547,764,531$4,825,215,862$970,966,858$750,992,2310.77
2018 
 
71,22541,220,620$5,381,909,215$1,553,327,433$1,440,424,9990.93

Data current as of March 08, 2019. 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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