BACKGROUND:

Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic damage in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. There are also continuing impacts from Hurricane Debby in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The Risk Management Agency (RMA) recognizes the need for authorizing emergency procedures to streamline certain determinations to accelerate the adjustment of losses and issuance of indemnity payments to crop insurance policyholders in impacted areas.

As of October 01, 2024 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2024 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2025 Actuarial Data Master for the 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

For the Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) approved 2024 CY harvest prices for insurance offers with a harvest price discovery period of September 1, 2024, through September 30, 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 October 3, 2024:

As of September 30, 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:

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation has expanded the number of counties where certain crops are insurable for the 2025 crop year having an August 31 thru December 31 contract change date. The following attachment, 2025 Expansion of Existing Perennial Crop Programs, lists the expansion by crop, state, and county.

ACTION:

Approved Insurance Providers should advise producers of the expanded county crop programs for the 2025 crop year.

DISPOSAL DATE:
December 31, 2025

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 September 26, 2024 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2024 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 8/31, 11/30, 1/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2025 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

In accordance with Section 8 of the HIP-WI Endorsement and the Hurricane Data Provisions, approved parishes/counties will have an updated payment flag and triggering event date available by close of business today in the following formats:   

As of September 20, 2024 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2024 Actuarial Data Master for the 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2025 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 9/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

As of September 17, 2024 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2025 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2025 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2025 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release: