Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) amended the Forage Seeding Crop Provisions for the 2022 and succeeding crop years in response to comments received on the Final Rule published in the Federal Register on April 30, 2020, to clarify the later spring sales closing date applies in counties with both fall and spring-planted practices if a producer does not plant any “insurable” fall planted acreage.

Background

The Risk Management Agency is making clarifications to the Hybrid Vegetable Seed crop insurance program for the 2022 crop year to address approved insurance provider (AIP) and producer questions. The program was privately developed in accordance with section 508(h) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act.

The following changes are applicable for the 2022 and succeeding crop years:

Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation's Board of Directors (Board) approved revisions to the Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP) plan of insurance, under section 508(h) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, on November 20, 2020. The Board also approved revisions to the Livestock Gross Margin (LGM) plans of insurance, under section 508(h) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, on June 23, 2020. The following revisions are applicable for the 2022 and succeeding crop years:

Dairy Revenue Protection changes include:

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) is implementing expansion of the Production and Revenue History (PRH) Strawberry Pilot crop insurance program to California as approved by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors.

For crop year 2022, the PRH strawberry policy:

As of April 23, 2021 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2022 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2022 Special Provisions for the 4/30 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2022 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2022 directory.
• 2022 Special Provisions are in the Special_Provisions/2022 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

Background

On November 30, 2020, RMA issued modifications to the flue cured tobacco crop insurance program for the 2021 and succeeding crop years. The changes include a two-tier price election and quality adjustment eligibility for tobacco grown under a production agreement.

As of April 19, 2021 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2021 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 8/31, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2021 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2021 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:

As of April 16, 2021 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 9/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

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