For the Common Crop Insurance Policy, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) approved 2025 CY projected prices and price volatility factors for insurance offers with a projected price discovery period of July 15, 2024, through August 14, 2024. These values may be viewed in the attachment and on RMA’s Price Discovery portal, located here: public-rma.fpac.usda.gov/apps/PriceDiscovery.

These values will also be available at the following locations on RMA’s website by August 19, 2024:

Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors approved changes to the Grapevine crop insurance program, under section 508(h) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, on May 23, 2024.

The following changes are applicable for the 2025 and succeeding crop years:

As of August 13, 2024 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2025 Actuarial Data Master for the 8/31, 9/30, 10/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2025 Special Provisions for the 8/31, 9/30, 10/31 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Background

On May 23, 2024, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) Board of Directors approved the Fire Insurance Protection - Smoke Index (FIP-SI) Endorsement. It is available beginning with the 2025 crop year as additional coverage for the Common Crop Insurance Policy, Basic Provisions and the Actual Production History Grape Crop Provisions in counties located in California. The coverage provided by this Endorsement may be combined with the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) Endorsement or the Catastrophic Risk Protection Endorsement (CAT).

As of August 09, 2024 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2024 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2024 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2024 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

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: