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Podcast: The Crop Insurance Podcast
Episode: Crop Insurance Basics | 7: YE
Description: The Yield Exclusion (YE) is a provision in the 2014 Farm Bill that allows farmers with qualifying crops in eligible counties to exclude low yields in exceptionally bad years (such as a year in which a natural disaster or other extreme weather occurs) from their production history when calculating yields used to establish their crop insurance coverage.In other words; when a Crop in a County qualifies you can elect to “use” aka opt-in or “not use” aka opt-out the YE option for any one APH database which would then exclude that year's production from your APH calculation if you had the...