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hour "Issues in Agricultural Economics Super
Seminar" focused on providing extension educators with information that will strengthen their
ability to help farmers and ranchers prepare for
and manage risk. Laurence Crane reviewed crop
insurance participation in the western United
States, the growth in use of Whole-Farm Revenue
Protection in the Northwest, and discussed using
crop insurance as an effective tool to prepare for
and economically survive crop failures due to insurable causes of loss. More than 1,300 extension
professionals from across the country attended
the four-day conference.

AAEA Meeting
Drs. Tom Zacharias, Harun Bulut, Laurence
Crane, and Mickey Paggi represented NCIS at the
2017 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) annual meeting held in Chicago,
Ill. The AAEA is a forum for scholarly work in
agricultural economics with about 1,500 agricultural and applied economists attended.
In a session concerning farmers' limited SCO/
STAX uptake, Harun gave a presentation entitled,
"Are U.S. Farmers' Insurance Choices Optimal,
Constrained-Optimal, or Sub-Optimal?" and
Mickey moderated the session. Harun also took
over the chairman responsibility for the Applied
Risk Analysis (ARA) section within the AAEA.
As part of his leadership role with the section,
Harun organized five sessions and the ARA
section luncheon at the meeting. The luncheon
featured Professor Robert Klein of Georgia State
University who gave a presentation entitled "Regulation and Markets in Catastrophe Insurance."
Tom participated in two sessions entitled, "Crop
Insurance: Challenges and Opportunities Facing
the Industry" and "Risk Management Programs
and the Next Farm Bill." Laurence accepted an
award recognizing his service as an elected AtLarge board member of the AAEA Extension
Section Executive Committee. He also represented NCIS in the Committee on the Opportunities
and Status of Blacks in Agricultural Economics-sponsored activities at the conference.

Laurence Crane (center) and extension educators met to plan for the 2018 Risk Management
Education sessions in Arkansas.

made a presentation on the basics of risk management and the importance of risk planning. He
also shared insights gained from the risk management workshops he has been conducting for
small, limited-resource, and socially disadvantaged farmers.

International Association of
Agricultural Production Insurers
The 34th Congress of the International Association of Agricultural Production Insurers
(AIAG) took place October 1-4 in Warsaw, Poland. The theme of the Congress was "Climate

Change, Remote Sensing and Big Data - New
Challenges for Agricultural Insurance," which
drew more than 300 participants from 39 countries. Speakers representing the United States
were Robert Johansson, Chief Economist of
USDA, who presented "Agricultural Development - Global and in the U.S." and Tom Zacharias, president of NCIS and vice president of
AIAG, who discussed, "Outlook on Crop and
Revenue Insurance in the U.S." Other issues
discussed included the implications of climate
change for crop insurance and livestock disease,
followed by overviews of the agriculture insur-

Pennsylvania Crop Insurance
Conference
NCIS participated in the 17th Annual Pennsylvania Crop Insurance Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The purpose of the conference is to provide crop insurance agents and
other allied professionals with updated information on the crop insurance program, agricultural
policy and risk management. Laurence Crane

Ken Root, Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network (right) interviewed Tom Zacharias at the 74th annual
National Association of Farm Broadcasting Convention.
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