Crop Insurance Tools
The 2021 iFarm Crop insurance Premium Calculator allows users to develop highly customized estimates of their crop insurance premiums, and compare revenue and yield guarantees across all available crop insurance products and elections for their actual farm case.
The 2021 iFarm Crop Insurance Payment Evaluator provides helpful information to producers comparing costs and risk reductions across their available crop insurance alternatives.
As an alternative to the executable tool you can download the spreadsheet here.
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As an alternative to the executable tool you can download the spreadsheet here.
The cover crop project seeks to provide farmers with a practical web-based decision support tool designed to help manage cover crops in their fields. The project makes use of existing research to demonstrate the potential for cover crops, as well as providing useful information for decision making and management of this practice. It will also seek to apply future research on cover crops as results are incorporated into updates and new iterations of the tool. This remains a work in progress with a goal towards adapting with the science.
Crop insurance Decisions in 2022
Illinois farmers traditionally have used Revenue Protection (RP) at high coverage levels as their main choice of crop insurance. Continued use at high levels seems warranted in 2022, given the large increase in production costs. Adding the Supplemental Coverage Option…
The Post Application Coverage Endorsement (PACE)
The Post Application Coverage Endorsement (PACE) provides payments when a farmer cannot apply nitrogen to corn after planting because of weather-related causes. Some farmers indicate they do not rely on post-plant nitrogen applications because of the risk of not being…
Higher Wheat Crop Insurance Premiums and the 2022 Crop Insurance Decision Tool
The 2022 Crop Insurance Decision Tool is now available to quote premiums for 2022 wheat policies. In Illinois and much of the Midwest, the deadline for changing wheat policies is September 30. Wheat premiums likely will be much higher than…
The farmdoc Crop Insurance section offers iFARM online tools including the Premium Calculator, Payment Evaluator and Price Distribution Tool. These tools are updated annually during the Spring crop insurance election period.