Figure 1 shows the increasing probabilities of using crop insurance as farm size, leverage, risk perceptions and risk management scores increase in the first stage of the model. Among the insurance products, the probability of using revenue insurance shows a similar increasing pattern that is especially strong for the risk management score. Revenue insurance makes payments that are more highly correlated with revenue shortfalls than APH, and thus could be more attractive as revenue risk increases, and as the importance of managing risk increases.Revenue insurance becomes
relatively more attractive than yield insurance as acreage increases as well, perhaps because larger acreages are naturally more geographically dispersed, and thus become less likely to experience an aggregate yield reduction severe enough to trigger APH payments. Further, larger farms face relatively more business risk and are more likely to seek more complete coverage of their revenue risks. In contrast, the probability of using yield insurance declines at higher rates for farm size and the risk management score than for the other two variables. The probability of using hail insurance alone is relatively constant and low across farm size and the debt-to-asset ratio, while declining more responsively across increases in the perceived probability of APH payment as well as the risk management score.