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A Better Approach to Calculate Approved Yield - Indexing. Dr. Myles J. Watts Professor, Montana State University Agricultural Economics & Economics Department Economic Consultant, Watts and Associates, Inc. Crop Insurance. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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A Better Approach to Calculate Approved Yield -
Indexing
Dr. Myles J. WattsProfessor, Montana State University
Agricultural Economics & Economics Department
Economic Consultant, Watts and Associates, Inc.
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Crop Insurance
• A risk management tool for producers to alleviate financial stress from:– Low yields.– Unexpected price declines.
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Concerns
• Producers ability to obtain meaningful crop insurance is eroded after a series of poor yielding years.
• After unusually good or bad years, rates are actuarially less sound.
• Technology improvements resulting in increasing yield are ignored by current system.
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Current Method of Calculating Indemnity Trigger
• Approved yield = simple average of 4-10 years of producer supplied yield history.
• (Approved yield)*(Coverage level) = Indemnity trigger.
• If yield outcome falls below the indemnity trigger, an indemnity is paid.
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Current Method
• Pros–Easy to administer.–Easy to understand.
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Current Method• Cons
– Does not account for technological increases• Biased.
– Small sample size• Efficiency of approve yield estimates.
– Series of unusually low yielding years will dramatically lower approved yield, making an indemnity payment less likely.
– Series of high yields increases probability of an indemnity payment.
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U.S. Corn Historic Yields
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1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004
Cor n P lanted Y ield T r end
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U.S. Wheat Historic Yields
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1918 1922 1926 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006
US Wht plyld T r end
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Wheat Yield, Petroleum County, Montana
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1924 1932 1940 1948 1956 1964 1972 1980 1988 1996 2004
Planted Yield Trend 10 year simple average 5 year simple average 2005 yield
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Objectives
• Develop an approved yield as accurate as possible point estimate of expected yield.– Reduce bias of a simple average.– Increased efficiency over a simple average.– Reduce adverse selection and moral hazard.– Administratively feasible.
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Proposed Alternative – Indexing• Longer term (e.g. > 50 years) regional data
(NASS) sets used along with producer actual production history.
• Method overview– Statistically estimate trend line from long term
regional data to forecast expected regional yield.– Calculate average of farm level and regional series
for given time period.– Difference between two is added (subtracted) to
(from) expected regional yield to calculate the producers approved yield.
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Detailed Discussion
• Let
2
2
2
number of farm yield observations number of regional yield observations
annual increase (slope) of yield trend line
farm level variance
variance of trend line residuals or errors
I
r
e
f
TTb
2 2
farm level variance beyond regional variance e
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Bias
• Simple average of current method is biased because of technology. Bias is
• Indexed yield predicted from linear regression has no bias.
1.2ITb
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Efficiency
• Variance of simple average = .• Variance of indexed yield has two
components which are orthogonal and additive.– Variance of regional expected yield ( ) in
year =
22Y
IT
2r̂
22 2 2ˆ
2
1
1 4 21 .1r
r rr e eT
r r r
t
T t TT T Tt t
1rT
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Efficiency cont.
– Variance of difference between farm & regional average yield =
Therefore, variance of Indexed yield is
22 .ff
IT
22 2 2 2
ˆ4 2 .
1fr
Indexed r efr r I
TT T T
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Efficiency Gain• Large number of observations at regional level
increases the efficiency of indexing.• The efficiency of the simple average and indexing is
the same when the number of observations satisfies
• The Indexed yield will provide a more efficient estimate of the approved yield if the length of the regional data series is greater than approximately four times the length of the farm data series.
1 .
4 2r r
Ir
T TT
T
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Illustration of EfficiencyLet
• For approved yields to be efficient (stable) and unbiased, the distribution of approved yields must be concentrated around the expected yield (small variance).
2
2
2
900 farm yield total variance
450 regional variance
450 farm level added variancee
f
20 30 40 50 60 70 80
4 225 210 176 159 150 143 139 1356 150 172 138 122 112 106 101 988 113 154 120 103 94 87 83 7910 90 142 108 92 82 76 71 68
Length of Regional Time Series (years)
Indexed Yield Variance
Length of Farm Data
(years)
Simple Average Variance
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Critical Component Indexing• Estimation of yield trend lines.
• ‘s are parameters to be statistically estimated.
2
4
1
3
Most General Form:
ˆ t otY
t
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Estimating Trend Lines
• Form is flexible.For example:
IF THEN
Linear
Exponential
Sigmoid
4 0
2 4
2 41, 0
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Figure 3Illustration of the Effect of
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Time
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ld
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2 0
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Figure 4Illustration of the Effect of
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tYt
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Figure 5Illustration of the Effect of
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Figure 6Illustration of the Effect of
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Model Selection• Model chosen by:
– Standard statistical tests such as F-test.– Visual inspection of graphs.
• Model choice experience– Have estimated 100’s of trend lines for crop yields in
the US and other countries.
Selected Form Proportion of Time Selected
Linear 80%
Sigmoid 15%
No Trend 5%
2 4( 1, 0)
2( 0)
2 4( )
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Wheat Yield, Petroleum County, Montana
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5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
1924 1932 1940 1948 1956 1964 1972 1980 1988 1996 2004
Planted Yield Trend 10 year simple average 5 year simple average 2005 yield
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Petroleum County, Montana
• Estimated trend line equation is
• Scale t
• Expected regional indexed yield 2005 = 22.6.
9.656
9.656
14.106ˆ 8.487 .988392t
tYt
1918 .10
yeart
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Adjustment to Indexed Method
• Indexed Farm Yield = Indexed Regional Yield = (Farm Average – Regional Average).
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Regional (county) and Hypothetical Farm Yields for Petroleum County
Year Example Farm Yield Regional Yield
1995 30.00 20.50
1996 35.00 26.00
1997 40.00 32.80
1998 30.00 36.30
1999 30.00 28.60
2000 15.00 9.10
2001 0.00 7.50
2002 10.00 5.60
2003 26.00 21.40
2004 25.00 21.40
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Petroleum County Simple Farm Average and Indexed Yield
Number Of
Years*Farm
AverageRegionalAverage
Difference of
AveragesIndexed
Yield
4 15.25 13.98 1.28 23.88
6 17.67 15.60 2.07 24.67
8 22.00 20.34 1.66 24.26
10 24.10 20.92 3.18 25.78
*Most Recent Years