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February 25, 2025 |
Protect and Defend Price Opportunity
Protect and Defend Price Opportunity
Ag Marketing IQ: Crop insurance is a building block for risk management. Farmers must build a wall to stand during a year of grain market volatility with record corn-planted acreage likely.
Crop insurance is a proven, valuable tool in a comprehensive risk management strategy. However, an updated review of various policy coverage levels and yield scenarios for 2025 highlights the limitations of relying solely on crop insurance to manage price risk. This is especially the case when actual yields exceed the APH, which has been seen in some areas.
Selecting a policy for your operation is an individual decision based on a variety of factors. Rather than focus on the policy decision, our objective in this article is to highlight the limitations of relying solely on crop insurance to manage price risk.
