Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO)
The Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) is a new crop insurance option that provides additional area-based coverage for a portion of your underlying crop insurance policy deductible. It must be purchased as an endorsement to the Yield Protection, Revenue Protection, Revenue Protection with the Harvest Price Exclusion, Actual Production History or Yield Based Dollar Amount of Insurance policy. ECO offers producers a choice of 90 or 95 percent trigger levels. Trigger means the percentage of expected yield or revenue at which a loss becomes payable.
ECO Endorsement
The ECO Endorsement begins to pay when county average yield or revenue falls below 95 percent (or 90 percent, if that is the trigger level you elect) of its expected level. The full amount of the ECO coverage is paid out when the county average revenue falls to 86 percent.
ECO payments are determined only by county average revenue or yield and are not affected if you receive a payment from your underlying policy. Therefore, it is possible for you to experience an individual loss but to not receive an ECO payment, or vice-versa. You may also receive a loss on both the underlying policy and ECO.