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In areas of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, an increase in planted cotton acreage and subsequent high cotton yields have caused abnormal delays in the completion of the ginning process of harvested cotton production for the 2017 crop year. As a result, many cotton insureds in these three states will not have gin records of their 2017 cotton crop available by the production reporting date (PRD).
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:
In accordance with the Special Provisions statement in lieu of section 10(d)(1) of the Upland and ELS Cotton Crop Provisions, Price B will be established by adding premiums and/or discounts associated with the predominant cotton quality characteristics, as determined by the Farm Service Agency, to the Upland and ELS Cotton National Average Loan Rates. The predominant quality characteristics of cotton in each state are determined from the most recent three years of Agricultural Marketing Service cotton classing data.
The Risk Management Agency (RMA) has discovered that, due to a computer programming error, the 2018 crop year Stacked Income Protection premium rates in the actuarial documents are incorrect and are much lower than is actuarially sound. In accordance sections 506(o) and 508(d) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, RMA is mandated to maintain actuarial soundness; therefore, action must be taken to correct and reissue the actuarially appropriate rates for the 2018 crop year.
As of March 13, 2018 the following information is now available on the FTP site:
Users can find this information in the following directories:
Additional notes and details regarding this data release:
The 2018 CY projected prices shown below are approved for the following plans of insurance: Yield Protection, Area Yield Protection, Revenue Protection, Area Revenue Protection, Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion, and Area Revenue Protection with the Harvest Price Exclusion.
Organic Rice Factor
As the result of concerns regarding the proper reporting of organic acreage in the Coastal Bend area of Texas, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) implemented the following changes to maintain the integrity and actuarial soundness of organic coverage in that region. These changes include:
