{"id":5145,"date":"2014-02-11T09:59:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncis.staging.wpengine.com\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2014-02-11T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:59:37","slug":"2013-a-landmark-year-for-farmers-crop-insurance-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/2013-a-landmark-year-for-farmers-crop-insurance-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 A Landmark Year for Farmers, Crop Insurance Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of the 2012 drought, farmers turned to crop insurance in record numbers to protect their crops in 2013, according to data released recently at the convention hosted by the National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) and American Association of Crop Insurers<\/p>\n<p>The industry noted that 2013 had been a landmark year for both farmers and the crop insurance industry as a whole. The year clearly showed that farmers who purchase crop insurance can bounce back with a vengeance \u2013 producing bumper wheat and corn crops \u2013 without the need for costly disaster bills. Some of the more notable statistics for the year include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Farmers spent $4.5 billion to purchase insurance policies. That is up from $4.1 billion in 2012 and brings farmers\u2019 total investment in crop insurance to $38 billion since 2000;<\/li>\n<li>52,000 more policies were sold in 2013 than 2012;<\/li>\n<li>Crop insurance protected $123 billion of potential liabilities last year, as compared to $117 billion in 2012 and $114 billion in 2011;<\/li>\n<li>A record 296 million acres, or 90 percent of insurable cropland, was covered by crop insurance in 2013. U.S. farmers protected 86 percent of eligible acres in 2012 and 84 percent of acres in 2011;<\/li>\n<li>To date, 423,000 policies have been indemnified in 2013, a sharp fall from the record of 495,000 in 2012. 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