Forage Production

Forage production is insurable in a county if:

• A premium rate is provided for the type in the actuarial documents;
• You have a share in the crop; and
• Grown after the establishment year.

Idaho - Benewah, Boundary, Kootenai, Teton, and Twin Falls counties.

Oregon - Klamath and Malheur counties.

Washington - Pend Oreille, Spokane, and Stevens counties.

Coverage is available in other counties by written agreement if certain criteria are met. Submit requests through your insurance agent to the Spokane Regional Office before the sales closing date.

You are protected against the following:

• Adverse weather conditions such as hail, frost, freeze, wind, drought, and excess moisture;
• Earthquake;
• Failure of irrigation water supply, if caused by an insured peril during the insurance period;
• Fire, if caused by an insured peril during the insurance period;
• Insects, but not damage due to insufficient or improper application of control measures;
• Plant disease, but not damage due to insufficient or improper application of control measures;
• Volcanic eruption; or
• Wildlife.

Damage that occurs after removal from the windrow is not insurable.

Insurance begins on acreage with an adequate stand on the later of:

• The day we accept your application;
• October 16; or
• April 15 of the year after the year of establishment (spring-seeded acreage only).

Insurance ends with the earliest of one of the following:

• Total destruction of the forage crop;
• Removal from the windrow or the field for each cutting;
• Final adjustment of the loss;
• Abandonment of the forage crop;
• The date grazing starts on the forage crop; or
• October 15.

Insurance coverage continues for acreage that is grazed after it has gone into winter dormancy. Winter dormancy is defined as the suspension of growth and development of the forage plants during the fall and winter months. You must remove all livestock from insured fields before the forage emerges from winter dormancy.

• Sales Closing …………September 30, 2017
  
• Insurance Attaches…………October 16, 2017
  
• Acreage Report Due…………December 15, 2017
  

For new spring-seeded acreage, a revised acreage report may be submitted until July 15.

Irrigated practices are insurable in all counties listed. Non-irrigated practices are also available in select counties. The alfalfa type is insurable in all counties. The grassalfalfa, alfalfa-grass, timothy and orchardgrass types are insurable in select counties.

If a type or practice is not listed as insurable in your county, talk to your crop insurance agent about requesting coverage by written agreement.

The policy does not insure any acreage:

• That does not have an adequate stand at the beginning of the insurance period;
• That is grown with a non-forage crop; or
• Where the farming practices carried out on the insured acreage do not follow or comply with established good farming practices for your area.

Assume a 65 percent coverage level, a 100 percent price election of $163 per ton, and an average yield of 4 tons per acre.