Cotton

Background

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).

Background

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.

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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.

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Organic Rice Factor

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) offers distinct organic practice rice prices for many plans of insurance. The definitions and specifications for the rice organic practice prices are provided in the ‘Commodity Exchange Price Provisions (CEPP) Section II: Rice’ document. The following 2019 CY organic practice price factor will be applied to conventional practice rice prices, as determined in accordance with the CEPP, to derive the organic practice rice prices:

Common Crop Insurance Policy, Area Risk Protection Insurance, and Margin Protection

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

Background

Hurricane Michael caused catastrophic damage in many counties in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The Risk Management Agency (RMA), in conjunction with Approved Insurance Providers (AIPs), recognize the need for authorizing emergency procedures that will streamline certain loss determinations on specific crops, accelerating the adjustment of losses and issuance of indemnity payments to crop insurance policyholders in impacted areas.

Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance¹

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

As of July 16, 2018 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2017 Actuarial Data Master for the 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

In accordance with Section 3 of the ARPI Crop Provisions, Section 9 of the STAX Crop Provisions, and Section 10 of the SCO Endorsement, approved final county yields, county revenues and payment factors for the 2017 crop year will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

In accordance with Section 10 of the SCO Endorsement, approved final area yields for 2017 crop year Buckwheat, Burley Tobacco, Cigar Binder Tobacco, Corn, Cotton Ex Long Staple, Cucumbers, Dark Air Tobacco, Dry Beans, Fire Cured Tobacco, Flax, Flue Cured Tobacco, Grain Sorghum, Green Peas, Hybrid Corn Seed, Hybrid Seed Rice, Hybrid Sorghum Seed, Millet, Mustard, Peanuts, Popcorn, Processing Beans, Pumpkins, Rice, Sesame, Silage Sorghum, Soybeans, Sugar Beets, Sunflowers and Sweet Corn will be available by close of business today in the following formats: