USDA · Risk Management Agency cause of loss

Crop-loss bands by county — license

The Risk Management Agency files, for every insured county and commodity in the United States, the premium, the indemnity, the liability, the quantity planted and lost, and the policy counts, cause by cause and year by year. This desk re-projects that filing onto the county-crop and states the band the year-by-year ratios make. The derived table is licensed for a state, or for the nation under internal-use or redistribution terms, refreshed for the term, for use inside the licensee's own work. A research engagement is quoted per piece of work.

• 18,794county-crops on the register

What you get

• The county-crop table itself: premium, indemnity, liability, quantity planted, quantity lost and policy counts, one row per county and commodity
• The year-by-year ratio behind each row, so the band can be recomputed rather than taken on trust
• The cause mix behind each row, with the indemnity each cause paid
• The filing each figure came from, carried on the row
• Refresh for the term, so a licensed table does not go stale in the licensee's hands
• Terms in writing: internal use, or redistribution as the license sets out

Who buys it

Agricultural lenders building county exposure models, crop insurers and reinsurers, cooperatives and input suppliers planning a region, and research groups studying a growing area.

Questions

What is actually licensed?

The county-crop table this desk builds: one row per county and commodity, carrying premium, indemnity, liability, quantity planted, quantity lost and policy counts, with the year-by-year ratios and the cause mix behind the row. It is the derived table that is licensed, and each row states the filing it came from.

Is the underlying agency file mine to resell?

No, and this license does not claim it is. The agency's file is a United States Government work published free to anyone; what is licensed here is this desk's re-projection of it onto the county-crop, together with the refresh and the terms. A licensee who wants the agency's file can fetch it from the agency.

How is a national license priced?

Against the term and the use. Internal use inside one organization is one arrangement; redistribution to the organization's own customers is another, and the two are written separately rather than left to be inferred from a single figure.

What is a research engagement?

Quoted per piece of work: a question about a county-crop, a region or a cause, answered from the filing and delivered as a document. It is quoted rather than listed because the work is scoped before it is priced.