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Product Management Bulletin-PM-15-020 Resumption of Sales for Livestock Risk Protection Lamb

Date
To
All Approved Insurance Providers
All Risk Management Agency Field Offices
All Other Interested Parties
From
Tim B. Witt, Deputy Administrator /s/ Tim B. Witt
Subject
Resumption of Sales for Livestock Risk Protection Lamb (LRP-Lamb)

Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors approved a number of program changes to the LRP-Lamb plan of insurance including:

  1. A revised price prediction model;
  2. Revised definition of “Insured Lambs”;
  3. Removal of the 20-week endorsement;
  4. Added language to prevent assignment of indemnities to businesses buying, selling, marketing, or packing lambs;
  5. Changes to the daily and annual sales limit; and
  6. Modifications to how the actual ending values are calculated.

Action

LRP-Lamb sales will resume on May 4, 2015. Producers interested in purchasing an LRP-Lamb Specific Coverage Endorsement must contact a crop insurance agent and complete an application that will be submitted through an Approved Insurance Provider (AIP). A list of crop insurance agents authorized by AIPs to write livestock insurance is on the Risk Management Agency (RMA) website at: www.rma.usda.gov/tools-reports/agent-locator.

The LRP-Lamb program materials can be found on the RMA website Livestock page at: www.rma.usda.gov/policy-procedure/general-policies/livestock-insurance-plans.

DISPOSAL DATE:
December 31, 2015.