The 2014 Farm Bill included a provision of yield exclusion in the calculation of Actual Production History (APH) used in crop insurance decisions. Yield Exclusion (YE) allows producers, at their discretion, to drop certain years’ production from the APH calculation.
Counties whose yield for a year was below 50% of the average of the previous 10-year county yields are eligible for YE. Also eligible are counties contiguous to these counties. The maps below show which years in each county are eligible for the corn and soybean YE provision, as determined by the USDA Risk Management Agency. More maps for other non-irrigated and irrigated crops can be found at http://crops.missouri.edu/insurance/APHexclusion.htm.
