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Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors (Board) approved revisions to the Livestock Gross Margin (LGM) plan of insurance for Cattle, Dairy, and Swine, under section 508(h) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, on June 23, 2020. The following revisions are applicable for the 2021 and succeeding crop years:

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) issued bulletin MGR-20-015 on May 28, 2020, to authorize additional crop insurance relief following Farm Service Agency (FSA) Notice CP-757, which waived late filing fees for a FSA acreage report (FSA-578) when filed within 30 days of the acreage reporting date (ARD).

Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation has expanded the number of counties where certain crops are insurable for the 2021 crop year having a June 30 contract change date. The following attachment, 2021 Expansion of Existing Fall Crop Programs, lists the expansion by crop, state, and county for permanently-established (non-pilot) programs.

Action

Approved Insurance Providers should advise producers of the expanded county crop programs for the 2021 crop year. 

DISPOSAL DATE:
December 31, 2020.

As of July 02, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

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

Users can find this information in the following directories:

In accordance with Section 10 of the SCO Endorsement, approved final area yields for 2019 crop year Buckwheat, Burley Tobacco, Cigar Binder Tobacco, Corn, Cucumbers, Dark Air Tobacco, Dry Beans, Fire Cured Tobacco, Flax, Flue Cured Tobacco, Grain Sorghum, Green Peas, Hybrid Corn Seed, Hybrid Seed Rice, Hybrid Sorghum Seed, Millet, Mustard, Peanuts, Popcorn, Processing Beans, Pumpkins, Rice, Sesame, Silage Sorghum, Soybeans, Sugar Beets, Sunflowers, Sweet Corn, and 11/30 Tomatoes will be available by close of business today in the following formats: