The Fundamentals of Federal Crop Insurance provides a practical introduction to the federal crop insurance program, including its history, structure, economic rationale, major products, and application requirements. The workbook explains how federal crop insurance operates as a public-private partnership administered by USDA’s Risk Management Agency.

Readers learn about individual plans—including Yield Protection, Revenue Protection, and Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion—which base guarantees and indemnities on farm-level production. The workbook also covers area products that use county yields, revenues, rainfall, or other indexes, including SCO, ECO, and Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage. It explains how product selection, coverage levels, unit structures, and documentation affect the protection available to an individual farm.

Specialized products, including Whole Farm Revenue Protection and Micro Farm, are also discussed. Together, the chapters present crop insurance as a customizable tool that supports broader farm financial and risk management.

The complete workbook is available as a free PDF. Readers may also complete the material at no cost through the self-paced UADA-Learn platform and receive a certificate of completion. To purchase a hard copy, contact Dr. Biram at hdbiram@uark.edu.