Using historical production data at the county level and statistical analysis, we investigate climate contributions to corn and soybean yields between 1974-2003. Crop yield trends are decomposed into two components: the technology-derived trend and the trend resulting from climate variability....

Powerpoint slide show presenting information about AIR (the first catastrophic modeling company), weather-based yield models, agricultural portfolio loss model, and applications to crop insurance/reinsurance.

We utilize an agricultural model that uses crop/weather relationships at the county resolution and fits robust distributions that take into account the impact that weather has on crop production. Once the crop insurance policy conditions and prices are applied to the modeled county yield...

This article describes the meteorological factors that caused the extent of the 2012 US drought event and its financial impact on the crop insurance industry