Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors approved a new Macadamia Tree Crop Insurance Program (19-MT) and Comprehensive Tree Value (CTV) Endorsement (19-MT-A) submitted under section 508(h) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act in May 2018. To avoid the redundancy of administering two policies with generally similar coverage, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) will not offer the existing Macadamia Tree Crop Provisions (16-0024) for the 2019 crop year.

Background

The Hawaii Tropical Fruit and Tree Crop Insurance Programs have been piloted to determine acceptance by producers as effective and affordable risk management tools and to assure the programs are actuarially sound. The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors (Board) granted approval for the conversion of these programs from pilot to permanent status based on the favorable pilot program experience.

As of October 16, 2018 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2018 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files
• 2018 Special Provisions for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date
• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files
• 2019 Special Provisions for the 6/30 Filing Date

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Background

Hurricane Michael caused catastrophic damage in many counties in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The Risk Management Agency (RMA), in conjunction with Approved Insurance Providers (AIPs), recognize the need for authorizing emergency procedures that will streamline certain loss determinations on specific crops, accelerating the adjustment of losses and issuance of indemnity payments to crop insurance policyholders in impacted areas.

Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance¹

The 2018 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, sales closing dates, states, types, and practices indicated in the following table.

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:

As of October 02, 2018 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2018 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 6/30, 8/31, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors approved the Actual Production History (APH) Caneberry Pilot Program on May 24, 2018. This insurance program protects against production losses for fresh raspberry varieties. It is available for the 2019 crop year for producers in the following California Counties: Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura.

As of September 27, 2018 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2019 Special Provisions for the 8/31 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2019 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2019 directory.
• 2019 Special Provisions are in the Special_Provisions/2019 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release: