Cotton

Background

The CEPP peanut factors necessary to establish the insured’s amount of protection under the peanut program for the 2020 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, 2020 to February 14, 2020. These factors apply only to states with a Sales Closing Date (SCD) of February 28, 2020 and are determined in accordance with the Peanut Price Methodology guidelines.

Background

The CEPP - Peanuts factors necessary to establish the insured’s amount of protection under the peanut program for the 2020 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, 2019 to January 14, 2020. These factors apply only to states with a Sales Closing Date (SCD) of January 31, 2020.

As of December 10, 2019 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 8/31, 11/30, 12/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2020 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2020 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

Common Crop Insurance Policy & Area Risk Protection Insurance ^1,2

The 2019 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.

Background

The Commodity Exchange Price Provisions (CEPP) are used in conjunction with either the Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions or the Area Risk Protection Insurance Basic Provisions, along with Crop Provisions for the following crops: barley, canola/rapeseed, corn, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, soybeans, sunflowers and wheat.

The CEPP specifies how and when the projected and harvest price components will be determined. The CEPP contains two sections:

As of November 27, 2019 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30, 12/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 Special Provisions for the 11/30 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2020 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2020 directory.
• 2020 Special Provisions are in the Special_Provisions/2020 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

Background

Organic Rice Price Factor

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) offers distinct organic practice rice prices. The definitions and specifications for the organic practice rice prices are provided in the ‘Commodity Exchange Price Provisions (CEPP) Section II: Rice’ document.

The following 2020 CY organic practice price factor will be applied to the conventional practice rice prices, in accordance with the CEPP, to derive the organic practice rice prices:

Common Crop Insurance Policy & Area Risk Protection Insurance ^{1, 2}

The 2019 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, types, practices, sales closing dates and states indicated in the following table.

Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance ¹

The 2019 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, sales closing dates, states, types, and practices indicated in the following table.

Background

The Commodity Exchange Price Provisions (CEPP) are used in conjunction with either the Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions or the Area Risk Protection Insurance Basic Provisions, along with Crop Provisions for the following crops: barley, canola/rapeseed, corn, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, soybeans, sunflowers and wheat.

The CEPP specifies how and when the projected and harvest price components will be determined. The CEPP contains two sections: