Background

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Risk Management Agency (RMA) is required annually, in accordance with Appendix C of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-123, Requirements for Effective Estimation and Remediation of Improper Payments dated October 20, 2014, to estimate and report an improper payment rate using a randomly selected, statistically valid sample of policies for the Federal crop insurance program.

As of April 27, 2015 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2014 Actuarial Data Master for the 8/31, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2015 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2016 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

In accordance with Section 3 of the ARPI Crop Provisions, approved final county yields for 2014 crop year forage production will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors approved a number of program changes to the LRP-Lamb plan of insurance including:

Background

Changes have been made to the Annual Forage policy under the Rainfall and Vegetation Index Plan Common Policy for the 2016 crop year to incorporate changes required by the Agriculture Act of 2014.

The following revisions have been made to the Annual Forage plan program for the 2016 crop year:

As of April 20, 2015 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2014 Actuarial Data Master for the 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2014 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2014 directory

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

In accordance with Section 3 of the ARPI Crop Provisions, approved final county yields and final county revenues for 2014 crop year corn, soybeans, and grain sorghum will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

As of April 15, 2015 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2014 Actuarial Data Master for the 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2015 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 8/31 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:

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) continues to update its data processing systems under the Information Technology Modernization (ITM) project. RMA replaced the use of the Extranet Pilot SharePoint site with a Regional Office Exceptions (ROE) system for submitting crop year 2014 Requests for Actuarial Change forms. Beginning with the 2015 crop year, ROE is expanding to include RMA Regional Office (RO) Added Land requests. As a result, Added Land requests should be submitted as a type of Determined Yield into the ROE system.