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In accordance with the Special Provisions, Price B will be established by adding premiums and/or discounts associated with the predominant cotton quality characteristics, as determined by the Farm Service Agency, to the Upland and ELS Cotton National Average Loan Rates. The predominant quality characteristics of cotton in each state are determined from the most recent three years of Agricultural Marketing Service cotton classing data.
As of April 23, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:
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Additional notes and details regarding this data release:
The Hurricane Insurance Protection-Wind Index (HIP-WI) Endorsement contains acreage limitations designed to avoid moral hazard of a policyholder increasing acreage in anticipation of a hurricane impacting their county. To prevent these actions, HIP-WI limits eligible acreage when a loss is triggered in the county before the acreage reporting date (ARD) plus 14 days to the lesser of: the acreage contained in an intended acreage report submitted by the underlying policy’s sales closing date (SCD); or the actual acreage planted and reported on the acreage report.
The Livestock Gross Margin (LGM) actual gross margins are posted by the Risk Management Agency (RMA) by the end of the first full business week of the months of February, April, June, August, October, and December. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the livestock industry, RMA is expediting the release of actual ending values to allow producers to receive payments faster.
As of April 16, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:
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In accordance with Section 15 of the ARPI Crop Provisions, Section 14 of the MP Crop Provisions and Section 10 of the SCO Endorsement, approved final county yields, final county revenues, harvest revenues and harvest margins for the 2018/2019 crop year will be available by close of business today in the following formats:
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:
Subject: A request dated March 18, 2020, was sent to the Risk Management Agency (RMA) requesting a Final Agency Determination for the 2017 crop year regarding the interpretation of section 10(c) of the 2017 Coarse Grains Crop Provisions, published at 7 C.F.R. §457.113(10)(c). This request is pursuant to 7 C.F.R. § 400, subpart X.
Background:
10. Duties in the Event of Damage or Loss
The policy provisions of the Whole-Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) program allow producers and approved insurance providers to request an interpretation of policy or procedure. The provisions relating to requesting an Interpretation of Procedure (IoP) are set forth in section 33(a)(1) of the WFRP policy, which require IoPs to be made in accordance with 7 C.F.R. § 400, subpart X (“subpart X”).
As of April 10, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:
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