Crop Insurance Episodes
Every Ag View Pitch conversation on crop insurance — summaries, key takeaways, and full transcripts.
Jan 2021
ARC and PLC election discussion
Steve Johnson says PLC will not trigger for 2021, ARC County is the likely choice, and the March 15 deadline collides with crop insurance decisions.
Jan 2021
Crop insurance decisions: a commodity crop alphabet soup - RP, SCO, ECO
Steve Johnson breaks down revenue protection, SCO and the new ECO for 2021: how they stack, why premiums rise, and what to settle before March 15.
Jan 2021
Weekly market outlook with Jarod Creed: Jan. 10-15th
Jarod Creed shows how the February insurance price turns crop insurance into a marketing floor, and why incremental sales beat waiting for a top.
Dec 2020
Goodbye to 2020: weekly market outlook
Jarod Creed of JC Marketing rejects percentage-sold targets in favor of selling the exact bushels that lock a profit, then covering the rest.
Dec 2020
Enhanced coverage option
Scott Pedigo explains ECO, the 86 to 95 percent county band added for 2021, what it costs per acre in Stark County, and when it triggers a payment.
Nov 2020
Sunday market outlook: December decision drivers
Jarod Creed explains why a revenue per acre goal, not a price target, should drive grain sales, and how China's shift to Brazil reshapes basis risk.
Sep 2020
Sunday market outlook: USDA report coming up Friday
Duane reads fund positioning against price response to judge whether a rally has stalled, and explains when carry and basis argue for selling now.
Aug 2020
Mechanically unharvestable
Steve Johnson explains the RMA unharvestable rule after the 2020 derecho: zero production counted, no check strip, and why to call your adjuster now.
Aug 2020
Do declining yield prospects equal more price strength?
Duane argues producers should separate their own yield and profit math from the national yield debate, and treat crop insurance as the first risk decision.
Aug 2020
Hurricane Laura visits Arkansas
Fred Black reports 4.5 inches of rain and an hour of 50 mph wind: down corn at 50 percent harvested, flattened cotton, and which soybeans held up.
Aug 2020
Shay Foulk and Meaghan Anderson discuss the aftermath of the derecho
ISU agronomist Meaghan Anderson on the August 2020 derecho: yield loss at R4, silage timing, aflatoxin risk, and why to harvest damaged fields first.
Jul 2020
Sunday night market outlook 07-19-2020
Joe Vaclavik turns fund positioning into a marketing filter, and warns farmers who set basis early to price the futures long before delivery.
Jul 2020
Weather improves, market declines
Steve Johnson expects a 15 billion bushel corn crop, weaker harvest basis and over $100 an acre of 2020 government payments. Price overflow bushels now.
Jul 2020
Sunday night market outlook 07-12-2020
Duane Lowry argues a sale only removes risk when it clears your crop insurance price floor, and explains why the double dip is a dangerous bet.
Jun 2020
Microeconomics of investing in $3 corn and $8 soybeans: a good idea?
Chris Barron walks through four steps for deciding mid-season input spending at $3 corn, using your own yields, insurance level, and margin math.
Jun 2020
Dec 2021 sales? Happy Father's Day!
Duane Lowry makes the case for 2021 corn sales at $3.73 while Dec 2020 sits 19.75 cents off contract lows with no crop insurance safety net for 2021.
Jun 2020
USDA S&D, acreage reports, and weather, oh my!
Duane Lowry weighs a thin weather story against 3 billion bushel corn carryout, record fund shorts, and crop insurance price floors before harvest.
May 2020
Tensions are high
Duane Lowry explains why a market that rallies must then defend the gain, and why basis quietly takes back most of what the futures board hands you.
May 2020
5% planted corn, May 25 insurance date: North Dakota
Marc Cartwright reports corn under 5% planted in North Dakota, soil still in the 30s and 40s, and up to 1.5 million acres facing prevent plant by May 25.
May 2020
Hang on, help is on its way
Steve Johnson tallies the government money coming to row-crop farms in 2020: MFP, COVID disaster payments, and PLC, plus how to beat FSA bottlenecks.
Mar 2020
Market fear; is it justified? Sunday night market outlook
Duane Lenz separates panic from fact, reads the corn-soybean ratio as an acreage signal, and argues for marketing tools that keep upside open.
Feb 2020
Start your engines: Sunday night market outlook
Duane Lowry explains base rates, forced basis-contract selling and why long-range USDA baseline projections cannot drive a marketing decision.
Feb 2020
Sunday night market outlook: February 9, 2020
Duane Lowry tracks the February insurance price average and explains why a crowded fund short inside a narrow range can produce outsized upside.
Jan 2020
Michigan corn growers, cover crops, and crop insurance: Great Lakes Crop Summit 2020
Three interviews from the Great Lakes Crop Summit: Michigan corn policy clout, why two-way cover crop mixes beat 16-way blends, and crop insurance basics.
Jan 2020
Sunday night market outlook 1-26-2020
Duane Lowry argues a market saturated with fear rarely marks the high, and explains why selling below your cost of production removes no risk at all.
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