Data

Research-ready data products for U.S. agricultural risk and policy analysis, spanning USDA sources and my own calibrated and synthetic datasets. Each card links to a public GitHub release that documents the included files, methodology, and recommended citation; most files are .rds objects downloadable directly in R with piggyback.

Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF)
Analysis-ready PRF Pilot Insurance data: county- and grid-level actuarial files, RMA rainfall index values, CPC precipitation, and derived potential-area and county penetration measures.
USDA RMA · Updated Mar 2026
PRISM Weather Data
County-level daily degree days and precipitation from the PRISM gridded dataset, aggregated over crop growing seasons following the Schlenker & Roberts (2009) and Tack et al. (2015) procedures.
PRISM · Updated Jan 2026
Summary of Business
FCIP participation and loss experience aggregated at three levels: contract choice × pool (sobtpu), coverage level × county × commodity (sobcov), and county × commodity (sobscc).
USDA RMA · Updated Mar 2026
Cause of Loss
FCIP participation, liability, and indemnities broken out by peril, letting losses be attributed to specific causes of loss.
USDA RMA · Updated Mar 2026
FCIP Calibrated Yield
Calibrated sub-county yields for every observed FCIP aggregated transaction (Tsiboe, Turner & Yu 2025, Journal of Risk and Insurance 92(1):139–165).
USDA RMA (derived) · Updated Jul 2026
FCIP Calibration Data
Standardized FCIP transaction records: Summary of Business experience joined to ADM rating parameters, converted to yield-equivalent terms with inverted rate yields. One file per crop year, 2011–present.
USDA RMA (derived) · Updated Jul 2026
Supplemental Insurance
Availability and adoption of SCO/ECO supplemental products: cleaned Summary of Business, annual ADM tables, agent-level datasets, an offering-and-adoption panel, and OBBBA-recalibrated ADM.
USDA RMA (derived) · Updated Mar 2026
FCIP Revenue Draws
500 correlated yield–price scenarios per producer under RMA’s M-13 framework, generated with common random numbers across all contract alternatives.
USDA RMA (derived) · Updated Jul 2026
Synthetic FCIP Research Inputs
Pseudo-producer panels built from unit-level experience, with loss attribution across the full peril taxonomy, cell-level peril probabilities, and RI-grid placement (apportioned and sampled).
USDA RMA (derived) · Updated Jul 2026
USDA NASS Extracts
Assorted county- and state-level series aggregated from USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) data.
USDA NASS · Updated Dec 2025
Insurance Control Elements
Assorted items aggregated from the FCIP’s Insurance Control Elements (ICE).
USDA RMA · Updated Dec 2025
USDA FSA Extracts
Assorted series aggregated from USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) program data.
USDA FSA · Updated Dec 2025
Actuarial Data Master — Legacy
The FCIP’s Actuarial Data Master (ADM) for 1996–2010, covering the pre-modern rating years.
USDA RMA · Updated Dec 2025
Actuarial Data Master — Extracts
Assorted rating and program parameters aggregated from the FCIP’s Actuarial Data Master (ADM).
USDA RMA · Updated Dec 2025
Ghana GLSS Harmonized Household Data
Harmonized farmer- and community-level datasets from all seven rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS1 1987/88 – GLSS7 2016/17), supporting agricultural productivity research.
Ghana Statistical Service · Updated Apr 2026