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MGR-20-022: Prevented Planting Cover Crop Relief

Background

Flooding and excessive rainfall in parts of the country have resulted in a significant amount of prevented planting claims under Federal crop insurance. Given these extraordinary weather events and the need for animal feed, flexibility around the use of a cover crop planted on prevented planted acreage for haying, grazing and cutting for silage, haylage and baleage has become necessary.

Actuarial Release 20-033

As of August 13, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

  • 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 8/31, 9/30, 11/30, 1/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
  • 2021 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 8/31, 9/30, 10/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
  • 2021 Special Provisions for the 8/31, 9/30, 10/31 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Final Agency Determination: FAD-298

Subject: This issuance replaces FAD-298 published on Risk Management Agency's (RMA) website on August 4, 2020. The revised issuance is needed to provide clarity regarding whether procedures established by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) in the Loss Adjustment Manual and the Apple Loss Adjustment Standards Handbook (LASH) are part of the contract between the approved insurance provider (AIP) and the policyholder.

Actuarial Release 20-032

As of August 03, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

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

Users can find this information in the following directories:

  • 2020 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2020 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

PM-20-053: 2020 Crop Year (CY) Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance Harvest Prices Announcement

Common Crop Insurance Policy & Area Risk Protection Insurance 1

The 2020 CY harvest prices shown below are approved for the following plans of insurance: Revenue Protection; Area Revenue Protection; Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion; and Area Revenue Protection with the Harvest Price Exclusion. The harvest prices are applicable for the crops, sales closing dates, states, practices and types indicated in the following table.

COM-20-003: 1st crop CCIP / 2nd crop RIVI - Annual Forage Double Cropping

Background

Compliance has identified instances of 1st crop/2nd crop potential abuse where agents have misapplied differences in double cropping requirements under the Common Crop Insurance Basic Provisions (CCIP Basic Provisions) and Rainfall and Vegetation Index Plan Common Policy (20-RI/VI) in their sales and marketing practices. Specifically, we found several instances where agents placed policies for the same policyholder with two different Approved Insurance Providers (AIPs) to avoid detection.

PM-20-052: 2019 Crop Year Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) and Stacked Income Protection Plan (STAX) Final Area Yields and Final Area Revenues for Cotton; 2019 Crop Year Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) Final Area Yields and Final Area Revenues for...

In accordance with Section 10 of the SCO Endorsement and Section 9 of the STAX Cotton Crop Provisions, approved final area yields and final area revenues for 2019 crop year Cotton, Cotton Ex Long Staple, Safflower and California Tomatoes will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

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