Cotton

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation has expanded the number of counties where certain crops are insurable for the 2019 and 2020 crop year. The following attachments, 2019 Expansion of Existing Perennial and Spring Crops Programs and 2020 Expansion of Existing Perennial Crops Programs, lists the expansion by crop, state, and county for permanently-established (non-pilot) programs.

Approved Insurance Providers should advise producers of the expanded county crop programs for the 2019 and 2020 crop year.

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The CEPP peanut factors necessary to establish the insured’s amount of protection under the peanut program for the 2019 CY are identified below. The factors are applied to the commodity prices for wheat, cotton, soybean oil, and soybean meal during the discovery period of February 1, 2019, to February 28, 2019. These factors apply only to states with a Sales Closing Date (SCD) of March 15, 2019 and are determined in accordance with the Peanut Price Methodology guidelines.

Common Crop Insurance Policy1

The 2019 CY projected prices shown below are approved for the Yield Protection, Revenue Protection and Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion plans of insurance. The 2019 CY volatility factors shown below are approved for the Revenue Protection and Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion plans of insurance. The projected prices and volatility factors apply to policies with a January 31 sales closing date and are applicable for the crops, types, practices and states indicated below:

The CEPP peanut factors necessary to establish the insured’s amount of protection under the peanut program for the 2019 CY are identified below. The factors are applied to the commodity prices for wheat, cotton, soybean oil, and soybean meal during the discovery period of January 15, 2019 to February 14, 2019. These factors apply only to states with a Sales Closing Date (SCD) of February 28, 2019, and are determined in accordance with the Peanut Price Methodology guidelines.

Cotton producers experienced, and continue to experience, a significant amount of wet weather during the 2018 cotton harvest, resulting in the quality (seed sprouting, mold, etc.) of both unharvested cotton and cotton modules rapidly deteriorating in the field. Gins are rejecting damaged modules, as well as samples of unharvested cotton, resulting in unmarketable cotton and cottonseed.

As announced today, Risk Management Agency (RMA) has developed the Multi-County Enterprise Unit (MCEU) Endorsement in response to requests to incorporate small amounts of acreage from one county into an enterprise unit for a contiguous county. The MCEU Endorsement attaches to eligible Common Crop Insurance Policy, Basic Provisions, and Crop Provisions for the insured crop and allows a producer to combine acreage of an insured crop, by irrigation practice, if applicable, in two contiguous counties in the same state into one enterprise unit (EU).

The CEPP - Peanuts factors necessary to establish the insured’s amount of protection under the peanut program for the 2019 CY are identified below. The factors are applied to the commodity prices for wheat, cotton, soybean oil, and soybean meal during the discovery period of December 15, 2018 to January 14, 2019. These factors apply only to states with a Sales Closing Date (SCD) of January 31, 2019.

The 2018 CY harvest prices shown below are approved for the following plans of insurance: Revenue Protection, Area Revenue Protection, Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion and Area Revenue Protection – Harvest Price Exclusion. The harvest prices are applicable for the crops, practices, sales closing dates and states indicated in the following table.