PRODUCT MANAGEMENT BULLETIN: PM–16-058
United States Department of Agriculture
Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services
Risk Management Agency
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Stop 0801
Washington, DC 20250-0801
Date
To:
All Risk Management Agency Field Offices
All Other Interested Parties
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Subject:
- Background
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The Risk Management Agency (RMA) published a Final Rule with Comment in the Federal Register, effective for the 2017 and succeeding crop years, which revised the Crop Provisions that contained Prevented Planting coverage levels for all crops with a 2017 contract change date on or after November 23, 2016, and for the 2018 and succeeding crop years for all crops with a 2017 contract change date prior to November 23, 2016.
The provisions in the prevented planting sections of each Crop Provisions have been revised to state that the prevented planting coverage levels will be contained in the actuarial documents. This change allows for appropriate updates to be made to prevented planting coverage levels due to changes that may occur over time that impact the costs incurred by producers up to the point of being prevented from planting. Please refer to the complete Crop Provisions for more information.
- Action
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The following Crop Insurance Provisions will be available by close of business today and may be accessed on the RMA website at: http://www.rma.usda.gov/policies/2017policy.html.
Additionally, a Special Provisions statement containing the prevented planting coverage level percent for each crop below will be available by November 30, 2016, and may be accessed on the RMA website at: https://webapp.rma.usda.gov/apps/actuarialinformationbrowser2017/CropCriteria.aspx
Crop Insurance Provisions:
Small Grains Tobacco Cotton
Green Pea Dry Pea
Extra Long Staple Cotton
Rice
Sunflower Seed
Northern Potato
Sugar Beet
Central and Southern Potato
Hybrid Sorghum Seed
Dry Bean
Coarse Grains
Hybrid Seed Corn
Safflower
Processing Sweet Corn
Popcorn
Processing Bean
Peanut
Canola and Rapeseed
Onion
Millet
Mustard
Interested producers should contact a crop insurance agent for further information. A list of agents can be found on the RMA website at: www.rma.usda.gov/.
DISPOSAL DATE:
December 31, 2016