Watts and Associates
Crop Insurance Division
The Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000
requires the USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA) to contract with private industry to develop new products.
Watts and Associates is
one of four firms that qualified to develop insurance products under contract to RMA.
Recent Projects:
- Prevented Planting Study
- Multiple Year Coverage Risk Management Program
- Feasibility of Revenue Coverage Plans that Maximize Producer Revenue
- Cotton Boll Weevil Eradication Program Impact on Actual Production History Yields
- Applying Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and Data Analysis Techniques Toward Crop Insurance Loss Patterns Analysis Project
- Developing Catastrophic Rating Methodology and Incorporating CAT Coverage Data
- Evaluation of the Group Risk Plan – Rangeland Pilot Insurance Program (GRP Rangeland)
- Research and Development of a Pilot Crop Insurance Program for Silage Sorghum
- Quality Review of Dry Bean and Sugar Beet Crop Insurance Policies
- Research Report Livestock Insurance Program
- Research Report Storage Insurance Options for Apples, Onions, Sugar Beets, and Sweetpotatoes
- Research and Development of a Christmas Tree Insurance Program
- Revenue Insurance Program Development
- Group Risk Plan Rangeland Program New Index Research & Development
- Sweetpotato Pilot Program Development
- Research and Development for Small Value Crops
- Development of a Risk Management Program for Pasture/Rangeland and Forage
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