Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance ¹

The 2017 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.

Malting Barley Endorsement

Common Crop Insurance Policy ¹

The 2017 CY harvest prices shown below are approved for the following plans of insurance: Revenue Protection and Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion. The harvest prices are applicable for the crop, sales closing date, states 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:

Background

The 2018 Crop Insurance Handbook (CIH), FCIC 18010-1, provides procedures to mitigate the impact to an insured’s approved actual production history (APH) yield in the event of production losses due to uninsured unavoidable fire (UUF) or third (3rd) party damage. As a result, the insured may request that no actual yield be included in the 2018 and subsequent crop years’ APH database for acreage damaged by a UUF or a 3rd party in the 2017 or subsequent crop year.

Background

The Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy), administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA), and the Livestock Gross Margin for Dairy policy (LGM-Dairy), administered by the Risk Management Agency (RMA), offer similar risk management protection for dairy producers. Under the Federal Crop Insurance Act, producers are prohibited from participating in both programs at the same time.

Additional Price Elections:

In accordance with section 3(e)(1) of the Basic Provisions, RMA is providing additional price elections for selected APH and SCO dry bean types and dry pea types with a March 15, 2018 SCD.

Background

The CEPP peanut factors necessary to establish the insured’s amount of protection under the peanut program for the 2018 CY are identified below. The factors are applied to the commodity prices for wheat, cotton, soybean oil, and soybean meal during the discovery period of December 15, 2017 to January 14, 2018. These factors apply only to states with a Sales Closing Date (SCD) of January 31, 2018.

Common Crop Insurance Policy & Area Risk Protection Insurance ¹

The 2017 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, types and practices indicated in the following table.

The following additional price elections are provided for 2018 CY grapes in California with a corresponding sales closing date of January 31, 2018.