# Crop insurance — Montana (2026) — USDA RMA Summary of Business — context brief

USDA RMA crop insurance for Montana (2026): 48,343 policies sold, $998,997,689 total liability, $178,211,230 total premium, $17,896,064 indemnities paid, loss ratio 10.0%. Top crop: Wheat. Atlas Commons aggregation over USDA RMA SoB. CC0.

Claims (warrant · source), each re-fetchable to verify:

- **Montana had 48,343 crop insurance policies sold in 2026 across 25 commodities** — RECORDED · USDA Risk Management Agency Summary of Business (https://www.rma.usda.gov/data/sob)
- **Crop insurance premium in Montana for 2026: $178,211,230 total, $119,516,734 subsidized** — DERIVED · USDA Risk Management Agency Summary of Business (Atlas Commons aggregation) (https://www.rma.usda.gov/data/sob)
- **Crop insurance indemnities paid in Montana for 2026: $17,896,064** — DERIVED · USDA Risk Management Agency Summary of Business (Atlas Commons aggregation) (https://www.rma.usda.gov/data/sob)
- **Montana crop insurance loss ratio for 2026: 10.0%** — DERIVED · USDA Risk Management Agency Summary of Business (Atlas Commons aggregation — indemnity / total_premium × 100) (https://www.rma.usda.gov/data/sob)
- **Wheat is the largest crop insurance commodity in Montana by liability (2026): $511,196,556** — DERIVED · USDA Risk Management Agency Summary of Business (Atlas Commons aggregation) (https://www.rma.usda.gov/data/sob)
- **What this crop insurance profile is — and is NOT — for Montana (2026)** — INTERPRETATION · Coverage Atlas framing (over the USDA RMA sources cited above) (https://coverage-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/coverage/crop/states/mt)

Do not take these on trust — re-fetch each named source. Full structured object: `https://coverage-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/coverage/crop/states/mt.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**Montana — crop insurance summary (2026)** (9): Policies sold — 48,343 — AGGREGATED; Policies indemnified — 1,064 — AGGREGATED; Total liability covered — $998,997,689 — AGGREGATED…
**Montana — top 25 crops by liability (2026)** (25): Wheat (0011) — $511,196,556 — 10,960 — 3.8%; Pasture,Rangeland,Forage (0088) — $201,528,973 — 1,536 — 29.8%; Dry Peas (0067) — $84,265,418 — 7,804 — 0.2%…