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:

Common Crop Insurance Policy & Area Risk Protection Insurance ¹

As of February 28, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30, 1/31, 2/28 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 Special Provisions for the 11/30, 1/31, 2/28 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Additional Price Elections:

In accordance with section 3(e)(1) of the Basic Provisions, RMA is providing additional price elections for selected APH and SCO dry bean types and dry pea types with a March 15, 2020, SCD.

Additional Price Elections:

In accordance with section 3(e)(1) of the Basic Provisions, RMA is providing additional price elections for sugar beets in states with a March 15, 2020 Sales Closing Date (SCD).

As of February 27, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 6/30, 8/31, 9/30, 10/31, 11/30, 12/31, 1/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2020 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2020 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

Background

On November 15, 2019, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors approved the Hurricane Insurance Protection – Wind Index (HIP-WI) Endorsement. It is available for the 2020 crop year for both Catastrophic (CAT) and additional coverage for Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions policies, when provided in the actuarial documents, in counties located in the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, as well as Hawaii.

Background

The Risk Management Agency is receiving questions regarding what factors approved insurance providers (AIPs) should consider when determining whether a cause of loss is present that could prevent planting, resulting in the denial of an insured’s request to increase their prevented planting (PP) coverage level.

Section 17(b)(4) of the 2020 Basic Provisions states:

As of February 20, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories: