Abstract: A method for providing insurance includes providing a bundle of products and services to a crop producer, the bundle of products and services comprising seed products and insurance. The insurance provides a benefit to the crop producer if grain grown from the seed products does not meet or exceed a crop quality threshold. The method further includes determining if crop grown from the seed products meets or exceeds the crop quality threshold and if the crop does not meet or exceed the crop quality threshold, providing the benefit to the crop producer according to the insurance. The benefit may be a cash benefit or a seed credit. The crop quality may be related to a particular end use for the grain such as ethanol production, food production, or use as a livestock feed.

Abstract: An agricultural input supplier can provide seed products by tying the compensation received for the seed products to an evaluation of the land base on which the seed products are to be planted and/or the performance of the seed products on the land base. The evaluation of the land base may be based on environmental classification and/or genotype-by-environment data. In addition to tying the compensation to the land quality and the seed performance, this approach to providing seed allows for recommendations to be made to the producer regarding which seed products should be used on the land base. The performance of the seed product on the land base may also be verified.