Background

Due to excess moisture, delayed harvest situations, and freezing temperatures in parts of upper Mid-West and the Pacific Northwest, some sugar beet processors are suspending harvest and delivery of remaining unharvested sugar beets for the 2019 Crop Year. As a result, sugar beets that have not been harvested will likely remain unharvestable due to insurable cause of loss which occurred during the insurance period, such as extremely wet or frozen field conditions.

Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) revised the Fresh Market Bean Crop Provisions to allow separate coverage levels by type (planting period) and to make other policy clarifications. The changes are applicable for the 2020 crop year.

Action

The following documents will be available by close of business today on the RMA website at www.rma.usda.gov:

As of November 01, 2019 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2018 Actuarial Data Master for the 2/28 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

In accordance with Section 6 of the of the Group Risk Plan (GRP) Oyster Policy Basic Provisions, approved payment landings for the 2019 crop year will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

Common Crop Insurance Policy & Area Risk Protection Insurance ^{1, 2}

The 2019 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 – Harvest Price Exclusion. The harvest prices are applicable for the crops, types, practices, sales closing dates and states indicated in the following table.

Background

The Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions state that insurance coverage ends on the earliest of the following: total destruction of the insured crop, harvest of the insured crop, final adjustment of a loss, abandonment of the insured crop, or the calendar date for the end of insurance period. The Sugar Beet Crop Provisions define harvest as the topping and lifting of sugar beets in the field.

As of October 24, 2019 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 8/31, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 10/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

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:

• 2019 Crop Year Rainfall Index July – August Index Interval Final Grid Indices for Annual Forage, Apiculture, and Pasture, Rangeland, 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:

Background

Section 522(c)(1) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (Act) allows the Risk Management Agency (RMA) to conduct activities or enter into contracts to carry out research and development for underserved agricultural commodities, including specialty crops.

Background

The High Amylose and the White and Waxy Specialty Corn Crop Insurance Programs implemented for the 2016 and 2019 crop years were developed under Section 508(h) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act by Sheer Simplexity, Inc. Effective September 27, 2019, maintenance of these products has been transferred to the Risk Management Agency (RMA).