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Extension Programs in Crop Insurance: A Maryland Case Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Wesley N. Musser
Wesley N. Musser*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland in College Park
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Many states have crop insurance extension programs. This activity has been stimulated with the availability of funds to support extension from the Risk Management Agency (RMA) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Several new RMA programs were established under the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000. The Targeted States Program is quite important for the Northeast. This program serves states that were traditionally underserved by crop insurance. It is available in all 12 northeastern states, plus Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. The Targeted States Program funds one program in each state. A total of $4.5 million in funding is available each year. Amounts for state programs range from $157,000 in Rhode Island to $754,000 in Pennsylvania, which is a considerable amount of funding.

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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , April 2008 , pp. 22 - 26
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Copyright © 2008 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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1 The 2008 call for proposals is available on the web at http://www.rma.usda.gov/news/2008/01/targetedstates.pdf. Musser Extension Programs in Crop Insurance: A Maryland Case Study April 2008 Agricultural and Resource Economics ReviewGoogle Scholar

2 See http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/cropins/index.asp Google Scholar

3 See http://www.cffm.umn.edu/wtg/.Google Scholar

4 See http://rightrisk.org/.Google Scholar