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What Is GRP? What Are Its Benefits?
Group Risk Plan (GRP) provides a dollar amount of protection. A loss payment triggers when the county average yield in a given year falls below the trend adjusted average yield by a greater percentage than the policyholder's selected deductible. Group Risk Protection does not provide prevented planting, late planting, or replant payments.
Additional Benefits
- A simplified program that is easy to understand.
- It provides payment based on performance of a crop in a county as a whole.
- It is more appealing than CBOT crop yield contract because:
- It triggers based on county rather than state average yield.
- The grower's transaction cost is lower because of government cost share.
Levels of Coverage
The grower selects the dollar amount of protection per acre and the percentage of the county yield (70 to 90% for most crops) at which they want to insure. Forage Production GRP CAT coverage is available at 65% of the expected county yield and 55% of the maximum amount of protection per acre.
Loss Payment (indemnity)
A loss is payable when the county average yield for the crop in the current year is less than the percentage of coverage selected by the grower at the time of application.
How It Works (corn illustration)
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Amount of coverage selected
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.....$300/A.
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Percent of county yield selected
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.....90%
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Expected county yield
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.....120 Bu./A.
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Payment yield
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.....90 Bu./A.
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.....16.7%
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| (108 Bu. minus 90 Bu. divided by 108 Bu.) | ||
| 16.7% loss × $300= |
.....$50 Loss payment per acre
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Availability
Crop |
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| Corn | IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, NE, OH, SD, WI | Availability varies by county. See actuarials for more information. |
| Cotton | AR, GA, LA, MO, MS, NC, TN, TX |
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Forage Production |
IL, MN, PA, WI |
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Grain Sorghum |
KS, TX |
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| Oysters | LA | |
Soybeans |
IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, NE, OH, SD, WI |
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Sugarcane |
LA |
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Wheat |
AR, CO, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, OH, OK, SD, TN, TX |
12/15/04, 01/10/05, 09/02/08, 12/23/09, 01/11/09
