South Dakota Crop Insurance
State Profile 2018

Crops	Insured Acres	Total Acres	Percent Insured
Barley	10,560	46,227	23%
Corn	5,169,708	5,190,173	100%
Dry Beans	5,313	5,645	94%
Dry Peas	30,788	33,683	91%
Flax	1,653	3,684	45%
Forage Production	678,367	1,782,212	38%
Forage Seeding	27,849	170,000	16%
Grain Sorghum	147,060	176,722	83%
Hybrid Seed Corn	2,817	N/A	N/A
Millet	28,238	218,388	13%
Oats	102,226	276,666	37%
Onions	0	3	0%
Popcorn	2,145	N/A	0%
Potatoes	8	18	44%
Rye	5,256	45,550	12%
Safflower	15,025	17,918	84%
Soybeans	5,523,583	5,647,177	97%
Sugar Beets	0	0	0%
Sunflowers	523,212	548,064	95%
Wheat	1,746,061	1,779,179	98%
Totals:	14,019,869	15,941,309	88%

Crop Pilot Programs
Program	County Availability	Total Liability
Apiculture (Rainfall Index)	All Counties	$6,829,915
Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (Rainfall Index)	All Counties	$153,334,058
Whole Farm Revenue Protection	All Counties	$55,054,839

Dollar Liability Program		Total Dollar Liability
Livestock Gross Margin – Cattle		$0
Livestock Gross Margin – Dairy Cattle		$7,101,285
Livestock Risk Protection – Fed Cattle		$2,632,759
Livestock Risk Protection – Feeder Cattle		$30,493,067
Livestock Risk Protection – Lamb		$8,202,373
Nursery (Dollar)		$1,702,475
Livestock Risk Protection and Livestock Gross Margin – Swine		$13,586

Year	Policies Earning Premium	Net Acres Insured	Liability	Gross Premium	Losses	Loss Ratio
2004	63,125	13,531,857	1,880,651,522	252,944,747	160,616,169	0.63
2005	62,647	13,595,395	1,616,878,786	230,808,649	117,943,256	0.51
2006	59,656	13,436,367	1,808,877,449	264,151,156	479,527,761	1.82
2007	59,001	16,497,333	2,712,532,248	423,896,567	220,519,912	0.52
2008	58,344	16,405,453	4,101,222,313	685,022,603	401,185,541	0.59
2009	62,030	15,742,989	3,325,496,454	565,813,605	221,737,100	0.39
2010	58,681	15,112,673	3,212,929,585	482,352,353	489,487,970	1.01
2011	57,204	15,076,348	5,054,298,455	725,728,249	477,789,116	0.66
2012	55,581	14,998,904	5,393,152,881	701,430,086	1,113,051,537	1.59
2013	56,869	16,779,953	5,788,764,526	826,409,396	411,045,671	0.50
2014	55,356	15,961,897	4,855,623,127	717,124,231	180,045,367	0.25
2015	54,149	16,218,555	4,439,819,676	694,819,852	187,962,855	0.27
2016	52,067	16,547,122	4,198,882,433	673,442,655	164,004,511	0.24
2017	50,813	17,437,282	4,671,545,361	663,395,425	352,096,909	0.53
2018	50,310	18,262,066	4,719,055,207	592,039,842	266,145,100	0.45

Data current as of February 28, 2019. For current data go to RMA’s Summary of Business tool.

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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