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1. Got a question on crop insurance coverage. Good to think about that more carefully. Fortunately, GS (as usual) has a great #FDD on exactly this for IL. Sure the data is out there for other states. farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2019/01/revenu…
2. Table from Gary's article shows crop insurance coverage for corn in IL for 2018. If I added up the numbers right, about 87% of corn acres had some kind of crop insurance coverage in 2018. 
2. Need to subtract out the products that do not have prevent plant (PP). These are the five options furthest to the right as I understand it. These options total 4%. Which means that 83% of IL corn acres in 2018 had PP as an option.
3. My best guess then is that 80-85 % of the corn acres in the US take crop insurance with PP as an option. That means there is a chunk of corn acres that PP is not even an option. Plant corn or soybeans. But which one on these "unprotected" acres?
4. Also, no way of knowing what % of corn acres are left that don't have PP coverage. My guess is that it is a bit less than overall average of 15-20% of the total because of the incentives to get these acres planted first where possible.
