Cabbage

Cabbage is insured by type (green or red, fresh or processing cabbage) and practice (summer planted), as specified in the Special Provisions of Insurance. Cabbage to be marketed as coleslaw is considered fresh market cabbage and is insurable as fresh cabbage. To be insured, cabbage must be:

• From the family Brassicaceae and genus Brassica, excluding Savoy and Chinese cabbage or oriental greens;
• Planted with inspected transplants, or hybrid seeds without interplanting;
• Planted within the planting periods, as designated in the Important Dates section;
• Grown to be sold as fresh or processing cabbage; and
• Planted in rows wide enough to permit mechanical cultivation, unless otherwise approved by written agreement.

Land on which Clubroot was detected within the previous 10 years, or Blackleg or Black Rot was present in any of the previous 4 years is not insurable.

Cabbage is insurable in Hidalgo County, Texas. Please refer to the Actuarial Information Browser at: The Web Actuarial Information Browser

Coverage in other counties may be available by written agreement if certain criteria are met. Please contact your insurance agent for insurance availability.

You are protected against the following:

• Adverse weather conditions, including hail, frost, freeze, excess precipitation and drought;
• Earthquake;
• Failure of irrigation water supply, if due to an insured cause of loss within the insurance period;
• Fire;
• Insects and plant disease, but not damage due to insufficient or improper application of pest or disease control measures;
• Volcanic eruption; or
• Wildlife.

Crop is not insurable against damage or loss of production due to:

• Failure to market the cabbage for any reason other than actual physical damage from an insured cause of loss that occurs during the insurance period; or
• Damage that occurs or becomes evident after the end of the insurance period, including but not limited to, damage that occurs or becomes evident after the cabbage has been placed in storage.

Coverage begins the later of the accepted date of the insurance application or when the cabbage is planted. The insurance coverage ends at the earliest of the following:

• Harvest of the crop;
• The date the crop should have been harvested;
• Final adjustment of a claim;
• Abandonment of the crop;
• Total destruction of the crop; or
• When summer-planted, December 31; when fall-planted, February 15; and when winter-planted, April 30.

Sales Closing/Cancellation Dates…..….….July 1, 2016

Earliest Planting Date…..Multiple Dates, See Actuarial

Final Planting Date…......Multiple Dates, See Actuarial

Acreage Report Date…...Multiple Dates, See Actuarial

Premium Billing……...……………….….May 1, 2017

End of Insurance…….....Multiple Dates, See Actuarial

• If crop damage occurs 15 days or more prior to beginning of harvest, give notice within 72 hours of discovery;
• If damage occurs within 15 days of harvest, or during harvest, give notice immediately so that a crop inspection can be performed. Leave 3 rows of unharvested crop per field for sampling;
• If any acreage on the unit will not be harvested would normally begin; and
• If any acreage will be put to a use other than the use identified on the acreage report (fresh), give notice at the beginning of harvest.

Damaged Cabbage Production - Fresh market cabbage that fails to grade U.S. Commercial or better in accordance with the United States Standards for Grades of Cabbage, or processing cabbage that fails the grade U.S No. 2 or better in accordance with the United States Standards for Grades of Cabbage for Processing due to an insurable cause of loss.

Direct Marketing - Sale of the insured crop directly to consumers without the intervention on an intermediary such as a wholesaler, retailer, packer, processor, shipper, or buyer.

Inspected transplants - Cabbage plants that meet the standards of the state inspection agency.

Marketable cabbage - Cabbage that is sold or grades at lease U.S. Commercial for fresh market cabbage; or U.S. No. 2 for processing cabbage.

Cabbage may be insured at the coverage levels shown in the table. Crop insurance premiums are subsidized as shown. If you choose the 75 percent coverage level , the premium subsidy is 55 percent and your premium share is 45 percent of the base premium.

The established and CAT prices per hundredweight for red and green cabbage are for the 2015 crop year.

Established Price…………………………$16.60 per cwt.

CAT Price……………………………...…$9.13 per cwt.

Actual Production History (APH) is the only plan of insurance available for cabbage. The production guarantee is based on your individual yield history or county T-yield. Basic and optional units are available.

A replanting payment is allowed only if the crop is damaged by a covered cause of loss so the remaining stand will not produce at least 90 percent of your guarantee and it is practical to replant. The maximum replanting payment per acre is 48 hundredweight.

The late and prevented planting provisions of the Basic Provisions are not applicable.