North Carolina Crop Insurance
State Profile 2018

Crops	Insured Acres	Total Acres	Percent Insured
Apples	4,280	4,571	94%
Barley	3,631	7,155	51%
Blueberries	8,215	*6,300	100%
Cabbage	872	2,233	39%
Canola	2,699	NA	NA
Clary Sage	12,918	NA	NA
Corn	802,718	870,778	92%
Cotton	442,333	422,367	100%
Cucumbers	496	7,498	7%
Fresh Market Beans	2,894	5,657	51%
Grain Sorghum	3,996	8,367	48%
Grapes	424	1,196	35%
Oats	2,827	8,103	35%
Peaches	520	827	63%
Peanuts	88,591	100,597	88%
Potatoes	10,458	10,688	95%
Processing Beans	402	405	99%
Soybeans	1,468,572	1,634,761	90%
Tobacco – Burley	273	495	55%
Tobacco – Flue Cured	159,212	159,380	100%
Wheat	342,958	403,112	85%

*Total acres from 2017 NASS data

Crop Pilot Programs
Program	County Availability	Total Liability
Apiculture (Rainfall Index)	All Counties	$520,012
Pasture, Rangeland, Forage	All Counties	7,488,290
Whole-Farm Revenue Protection	All Counties	$137,797,557

Dollar Liability Program	Total Liability
Livestock Gross Margin – Dairy Cattle	$258,750
Livestock Gross Margin - Swine	$0
Livestock Risk Protection - Fed Cattle	$0
Livestock Risk Protection - Feeder Cattle	$267,269
Livestock Risk Protection - Swine	$0
Nursery	$51,352,705

Year	Policies Earning Premium	Net Acres Insured	Liability	Gross Premium	Losses	Loss Ratio
2004	24,995	3,158,063	1,089,351,466	89,511,521	64,637,826	0.72
2005	19,046	3,105,010	907,059,399	77,483,528	65,607,212	0.85
2006	17,847	3,057,350	1,021,529,042	88,915,593	108,651,756	1.22
2007	18,128	3,121,011	1,171,822,184	108,416,424	162,279,103	1.50
2008	19,018	3,398,406	1,481,128,516	160,198,963	186,990,453	1.17
2009	19,623	3,487,837	1,478,915,572	161,550,825	118,465,588	0.73
2010	19,313	3,521,120	1,445,316,899	155,364,000	196,432,759	1.26
2011	19,350	3,537,099	1,857,757,173	218,029,074	354,633,919	1.63
2012	20,358	3,695,515	1,786,847,650	201,991,358	85,048,414	0.42
2013	20,792	3,756,321	1,863,274,172	195,156,753	155,663,751	0.80
2014	19,840	3,734,307	1,869,061,617	182,642,356	106,777,215	0.58
2015	18,780	3,546,190	1,606,076,719	166,164,958	248,772,813	1.50
2016	19,017	3,651,507	1,619,404,755	177,590,157	277,889,744	1.56
2017	17,712	3,381,456	1,760,457,292	194,725,085	121,950,972	0.63
2018	17,413	3,413,273	1,796,084,149	195,033,806	327,683,813	1.68

Data current as of March 12, 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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