Sweet Corn

All the processing sweet corn in the county is insurable if:

• A premium rate is provided by the actuarial documents;
• You have a share;
• It is grown under, and in accordance with, the requirements of a processor contract executed on or before the acreage reporting date;
• It is not excluded from the processor contract at anytime during the crop year.

Acreage in Oregon’s Willamette counties contracted with processors whose base price has not been finalized by the acreage reporting date is insurable. See clarification in the county special provisions.

Idaho - Bingham, Canyon, Cassia, Elmore, Gooding, Jerome, Minidoka, Owyhee, Payette, Power, Twin Falls, and Washington counties.

Oregon - Benton, Clackamas, Lane, Linn, Malheur, Marion, Morrow, Multnomah, Polk, Umatilla, Washington, and Yamhill counties.

Washington - Adams, Benton, Cowlitz, Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lewis, Thurston, Walla Walla, Whatcom, and Yakima counties.

You are protected against the following:

• Adverse weather conditions, including excessive moisture that prevents the harvesting equipment from entering the field or that prevents the timely operation of harvesting equipment and abnormally hot or cold temperatures that cause an unexpected number of acres over a large producing area to be ready for harvest at the same time, affecting the timely harvest of a large number of such acres or the processing of such production is beyond the capacity of the processor,either of which causes the acreage to be bypassed;
• Earthquake;
• Failure of the irrigation water supply, if applicable,caused by an insured cause of loss that occurs during the insurance period;
• Fire;
• Insects, but not damage due to insufficient or improper application of pest control measures;
• Plant disease, but not damage due to insufficient or improper application of disease control measures;
• Volcanic eruption; or
• Wildlife.

The insurance policy does not insure any loss of production due to bypassed acreage because of the breakdown or non-operation of equipment or facilities; or the availability of a crop insurance payment. The crop insurance provider may deny any indemnity immediately in such circumstances or, if an indemnity has been paid, require you to repay it to them with interest at any time acreage was bypassed due to the availability of a crop insurance payment; or your failure to follow the requirements contained in the processor contract.

Insurance begins at the time of planting and ends with the earliest occurrence of one of the following:

• The crop is destroyed;
• The crop should have been harvested but was not harvested;
• Abandonment of the crop;
• The crop is harvested;
• The date you harvest sufficient production to fulfill the processor contract if the processor contract stipulates a specific amount of production to be delivered;
• Final adjustment of a loss on a unit;
• September 30 in Malheur County, Oregon and all Idaho counties; or
• October 20 in all other Oregon counties and in all Washington counties.

Bypassed Acreage - Land on which production is ready for harvest but the processor elects not to accept such production so it is not harvested.

Processor Contract - Written agreement between producer and processor, or between producer and broker, containing at a minimum:

• The producer’s commitment to plant and grow sweet corn, and deliver the sweet corn production to the processor;
• The processor’s commitment to purchase all production stated in the processor contact; and
• A base contact price.

Multiple contracts with the same processor specifying amounts of production are considered as a single processor contract.

Catastrophic Risk Protection (CAT) coverage is $300 per crop per county.

Additional coverage is $30 per crop per county.

Assume 100-percent share, 80-percent coverage, 100-percent price election of $60 per ton, and an average yield of 9 tons per acre.