Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) issued bulletin MGR-20-006 on March 27, 2020, due to “stay at home” orders issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. MGR-20-006 authorized Approved Insurance Providers (AIPs) to accept production reports through the earlier of the acreage reporting date (ARD) or 30 calendar days after the applicable production reporting date (PRD) for 2019 and 2020 crop year policies insured under the Common Crop Insurance Policy, Basic Provisions (BP) with a PRD of March 15, 2020, or later.

Background

Many state and local governments have issued “stay at home” orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which may preclude agents from meeting with policyholders or potential policyholders to obtain signatures associated with various reporting requirements, written agreements, and the purchase of new coverage or adjustments to current policy elections.

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Background

Many state and local governments have issued “stay-at-home” orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which may prevent loss adjusters from completing on-the-farm replant inspections and obtaining associated signatures required for replant certification purposes. In the absence of “stay-at-home” orders, loss adjusters and policyholders may also be prevented from meeting in person due to concerns of spreading COVID-19. 

Background

In accordance with Section 8 of the Rainfall and Vegetation Index Plan Common Policy Basic Provisions, final grid indices and payment calculation factors have been determined and approved for the following:

• 2020 Crop Year Rainfall Index December – January Index Interval Final Grid Indices for Annual Forage

Action

By close of business today, final grid indices and payment calculation factors will be available in the Actuarial Information Browser and Actuarial Data Master in the following formats:

As of April 01, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Background

Many state and local governments have issued “stay at home” orders in response to the COVID-19. Concerns have been expressed about the requirement to pay crop insurance premiums timely to avoid accrual of interest.

Section 24 of the Common Crop Insurance Policy, Basic Provision (BP) states that interest will accrue starting the first day of the month, following issuance of the notice of premium due by the Approved Insurance Provider (AIP), provided that a minimum of 30 days has passed from the premium billing date.

Background

Many state and local governments have issued “stay at home” orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which may preclude agents from meeting with policyholders or potential policyholders to obtain signatures associated with various reporting requirements, written agreements, and the purchase of new coverage or adjustments to current policy elections. In the absence of “stay at home” orders, agents may be unable to meet in-person with policyholders and potential policyholders due to concerns of spreading COVID-19.