Texas Crop Insurance
State Profile 2018
Revised March 2019
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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
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Data current as of March 08, 2019. For current data go to RMA’s Summary of Business Tool.Year
Policies Earning
PremiumNet Acres Insured
Liability
Gross Premium
Losses
Loss Ratio
2004
79,734
14,531,781
$2,177,320,135
$368,051,090
$195,872,959
0.53
2005
74,362
14,013,578
$1,989,626,437
$315,769,730
$169,884,282
0.54
2006
69,269
14,672,121
$2,371,199,980
$400,149,348
$618,436,065
1.55
2007
76,883
35,369,734
$2,686,400,259
$468,635,522
$176,009,273
0.38
2008
75,724
34,004,779
$3,326,225,554
$604,278,623
$767,535,248
1.27
2009
77,383
36,129,558
$3,331,628,525
$662,744,583
$898,130,817
1.36
2010
73,621
33,496,826
$3,236,435,782
$627,085,494
$236,065,859
0.38
2011
71,473
37,101,512
$5,481,197,260
$1,098,765,078
$2,590,099,125
2.36
2012
77,000
50,688,267
$5,241,658,861
$1,082,815,634
$1,420,735,187
1.31
2013
78,818
48,440,999
$5,098,332,799
$1,075,748,908
$1,549,267,065
1.44
2014
77,451
47,128,218
$4,749,280,737
$981,118,809
$1,084,046,413
1.10
2015 86,399
47,764,531
$4,245,275,390
$928,673,307
$572,950,665
0.62
2016
76,686
41,317,679
$4,365,403,797
$890,824,967
$500,851,489
0.56
2017
71,505
47,764,531
$4,825,215,862
$970,966,858
$750,992,231
0.77
2018
71,225
41,220,620
$5,381,909,215
$1,553,327,433
$1,440,424,999
0.93
- Where to Buy Crop Insurance
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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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