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Margin Protection - Crop

Acronym
MP

PM-17-027: Margin Protection Plan of Insurance - Modifications Effective for 2018 and Succeeding Crop Years

Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) Board of Directors (Board), on February 15, 2017, approved the following modifications to the Margin Protection (MP) Plan of Insurance for corn, wheat, rice and soybeans pilot program beginning with the 2018 crop year:

PM-20-070: 2020 Crop Year (CY) Common Crop Insurance Policy, Area Risk Protection Insurance and Margin Protection Plan Harvest Prices Announcement

Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance 1

The 2020 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.

Actuarial Release 20-045

As of October 02, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

  • 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
  • 2021 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 6/30, 9/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Actuarial Release 20-027

As of July 02, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

  • 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
  • 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

PM-20-034: Margin Protection Plan of Insurance Changes Effective for the 2021 and Succeeding Crop Years

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) uses fertilizer prices posted by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME) to establish guarantees and determine indemnities under the Margin Protection (MP) Plan of Insurance. The CME has recently discontinued posting swaps prices for Urea (as of January 2020) and Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) (following the March 2020 contract). As a result of the change in available price data, RMA is updating the MP price provisions to utilize futures prices for Urea and DAP.