This .zip file contains graphic files (in .png format) of each chart and graph in the Economic Research Service report "Federal Crop Insurance Options for Upland Cotton Farmers and Their Revenue Effects" ERR218, published in October 2016. The content and context of these files is as of the publication date of the report. After time, the material may not reflect the current ERS program of work, may be outdated, and/or superseded, so please visit the website to obtain the latest information: www.ers.usda.gov. Any reuse of these images should include attribution to "Economic Research Service/USDA."

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(Fig01.png)                     Figure 1 - Year-to-year change in market price, yield, and revenue for U.S. cotton, 1976-2014
(Fig02.png)                     Figure 2 - Net STAX and SCO net payments over a range of  yields under low and high harvest price scenarios: (a) $0.55 per pound (b) $0.97 per pound
(Fig03.png)                     Figure 3 - Locations of Pinal County, AZ; Screven County, GA; Cochran County, TX
(Fig04.png)                     Figure 4 - Distribution of gross revenue for a representative farm in three counties of differing revenue risk with and without STAX1
(Fig05.png)                     Figure 5 - Ratio of SCO or STAX  premium to RP premium versus the gross revenue risk (for a representative farm in each cotton-growing county)a
(Fig06.png)                     Figure 6 - Cotton gross revenue risk and change in revenue risk with SCO, STAX, and RP crop insurance for county-level representative farms1,2
(Fig07.png)                     Figure 7 - STAX and deep-loss cotton insurance enrollment by county, 2015 
(Fig08.png)                     Figure 8 - Cotton operations/total crop operations versus STAX policies/cotton operations per county 
(appendixFig01.png)             Appendix Figure A2 - Tobit regression of STAX policies divided by cotton operations as a function of concentration of cotton operations out of total crop operations per county
(appendixFig02.png)             Appendix Figure A3 - Correlation between the yields of each countys representative farm and the national price for cotton
