Illinois Soil Health

This report shows how changing practices might influence outcomes in terms of yield and yield stability. Specifically, this report predicts how the yield and risk profile would change by changing the number of crops in rotation across the county. Change sections of this report by changing the drop down menus above.

The percent of fields with different number of crops in rotation before an intervention or, in other words, the current crop rotation practices today.

A 0 to 5 star scale for the fields within this county, scoring how much these fields are likely to benefit from a good soil discount.

Yield is the most straightforward way to understand a potential future under different management. This tool reports how yield would change under different numbers of crops in rotation as a percent difference from what would be expected from that field under current mangaement practices.

Average of percent change for fields in the county at different number of crops where where a circle indicates increase and square signifies decrease.

Histogram of expected yields where horizontal axis is percent change for each field in the county and vertical axis is percent of fields in the county.

This section considers the percent chance that a field will see a substantively higher ("gain") or substantively lower ("loss") yield than its historic average even if it doesn't result in a claim. This section reports on how these probabilities change with different numbers of crops in rotation compared to historic management practices.

Overview of what the average field in the county would experience in terms of change to gain and loss probabilities under different scenarios as relative change.

Histogram showing how individual fields' loss probability changes under different number of crops in both normal and dry conditions as relative change.

Histogram showing how individual fields' gain probability changes under different numbers of crops in normal and dry conditions as relative change.

This section considers the risk that fields in this county will file an insurance claim regardless of claim size. Specifically, this report looks not just at probability of claim but the relative change in that risk. In other words, how much more or less likely each field is to file a claim in some new management practice versus historic practices.

Percent change for fields' chance of shallow loss and, thus, filing a claim. Showing across the county at different number of crops where where a circle indicates increase and square signifies decrease.

Histogram of expected change where horizontal axis is percent change for each field in the county and vertical axis is percent of fields in the county.

Some claims are for small losses while others are more substantial. This report looks to the relative change in the probability that each field will file a catastrophic claim.

Percent change for fields' likelihood of catastrophic loss and, thus, catastrophic claim. This is in the county at different number of crops where where a circle indicates increase and square signifies decrease.

Histogram of expected change where horizontal axis is percent change for each field in the county and vertical axis is percent of fields in the county.