Texas Crop Insurance
State Profile 2016
Revised January 2017
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Crop Insured Acres Total Acres Percent Insured Annual Forage 162,508 N/A N/A Barley 18,492 33,428 55% Beans - Dry and Processing 15,935 27,000 59% Cabbage 1,084 3,156 34% Canola 17,184 21,380 80% Citrus Fruit 17,616 24,500 72% Corn and Hybrid Corn Seed 2,521,757 2,796,195 90% Cotton and Long Staple Cotton 5,508,344 5,589,792 99% Cucumbers 3,179 6,206 51% Grain Sorghum 1,629,172 1,792,702 91% Grapes 883 3,621 24% Oats 23,659 274,914 9% Onions 18,398 18,398 100% Peaches 1,001 1,001 100% Peanuts 163,590 300,877 54% Pecans 26,264 48,474 54% Potatoes 9,736 18,632 52% Rice 191,628 195,000 98% Rye 1,564 94,835 2% Soybeans 153,661 157,474 98% Sugarcane 37,648 39,376 96% Sunflowers 29,780 42,431 70% Wheat 3,755,624 4,647,182 81% Crop Pilot Programs Program County Availability Insured Acres Total Liability Apiculture All Counties N/A $13,179,081 Cottonseed Endorsement All Counties with Cotton Policies N/A $266,739,333 Hybrid Seed Rice Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Jackson, Jefferson, Lavaca, Liberty, Matagorda, Victoria, and Wharton County 11,407 $13,456,550 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 20,264 $8,363,672 Pasture, Rangeland, Forage All Counties 23,878,655 $507,576,350 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 11,187 $1,225,278 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. 27,417 $6,426,904 Whole Farm Revenue Protection All Counties N/A $8,200,919 Dollar Liability Program
Total Dollar Liability
Citrus Trees – Dollars $102,821,190 Nursery – Dollars $89,593,285
- 15 Year Crop Insurance History for Texas
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Year Policies Earning
Premium
Net Acres Insured
Liability Gross Premium
Losses Loss Ratio
2002
89,566
15,282,499
$1,889,589,400
$302,477,721
$364,785,090
1.21
2003
86,803
15,055,566
$2,035,481,487
$332,337,856
$452,036,573
1.36
2004
79,734
14,283,352
$2,177,320,135
$368,051,090
$195,872,959
0.53
2005
74,362
13,605,519
$1,989,626,437
$315,769,730
$169,884,282
0.54
2006
69,269
13,746,366
$2,371,199,980
$400,149,348
$618,436,065
1.55
2007
76,883
34,334,347
$2,686,400,259
$468,635,522
$176,009,273
0.38
2008
75,724
33,265,516
$3,326,225,554
$604,278,623
$767,535,248
1.27
2009
77,383
35,427,869
$3,331,628,525
$662,744,583
$898,130,817
1.36
2010
73,621
32,636,933
$3,236,435,782
$627,085,494
$236,065,859
0.38
2011
71,473
37,089,088
$5,481,197,260
$1,098,765,078
$2,590,099,125
2.36
2012
76,993
48,250,497
$5,241,853,019
$1,082,851,734
$1,420,443,953
1.31
2013
78,829
45,587,008
$5,098,462,973
$1,075,719,111
$1,547,466,384
1.44
2014
77,453
44,489,106
$4,748,811,428
$980,901,724
$1,081,866,126
1.10
2015
86,144
45,988,387
$4,205,760,948
$919,819,156
$464,342,115
0.50
2016
76,249
38,250,222
$4,331,228,707
$883,568,050
$422,851,675
0.48
- 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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USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800) 877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users).