Enhanced Coverage Option Provides Shallow Loss Coverage on Crop Insurance
By Shelby Myers
American Farm Bureau Federation
USDA’s Risk Management Agency’s Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) is a new federal crop insurance product available as an add-on to the underlying crop insurance policy for 31 spring-planted crops. Crops eligible for coverage during the 2021 crop year include corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, peanuts, rice, oats, barley, hybrid corn seed, popcorn, silage sorghum, canola, dry peas, dry beans, millet, sunflowers, hybrid seed rice, cotton ex long-staple, flax, sugar beets, buckwheat, flue-cured tobacco, fire-cured tobacco, burley tobacco, dark air tobacco, cigar binder tobacco, hybrid sorghum seed, grain sorghum, cultivated wild rice, sesame and safflower.