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Lessons from a Bad Beet harvest for agricultural insurers

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Could recent payouts to sugar beet farmers for revenue lost to bad weather lead to a growth in insurance options for out-of-doors crops, including parametric solutions? Edmund Tirbutt investigates.

Publicity surrounding payouts to UK sugar beet farmers could have created the impression that our agricultural community has a wealth of options for insuring outdoor crops. 

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