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:

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) continues to update its data processing systems under the Information Technology Modernization (ITM) project. RMA replaced the use of the Extranet Pilot SharePoint site with a Regional Office Exceptions (ROE) system for submitting crop year 2014 Requests for Actuarial Change forms. Beginning with the 2015 crop year, ROE is expanding to include RMA Regional Office (RO) Added Land requests. As a result, Added Land requests should be submitted as a type of Determined Yield into the ROE system.

In accordance with Section 3 of the ARPI Wheat Crop Provisions, approved final county yields and final county revenues for 2014 crop year wheat will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

As of March 31, 2015 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2014 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2015 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2015 Special Provisions for the 11/30 Filing Date.
• 2016 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

As of March 23, 2015 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2016 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2016 Special Provisions for the 4/30 Filing Date

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2016 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2016 directory.
• 2016 Special Provisions are in the Special_Provisions/2016 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

The Springfield Regional Office (RO) recently received a number of requests from Approved Insurance Providers (AIP) to further extend the timeline for submitting Pre-Acceptance Inspection Reports (PAIRs). Due to continued inclement weather and high volume of policies requiring a PAIR, the extension requests are approved.

The Raleigh Regional Office (RO) recently received a number of requests from Approved Insurance Providers (AIP) to extend the standard 30 day timeline for submitting Pre-Acceptance Inspection Reports (PAIRs). Due to continued inclement weather and high volume of policies requiring a PAIR, the extension requests are approved.

Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors approved a number of program changes to the LRP-Lamb plan of insurance including:

As of March 06, 2015 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2015 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2015 Special Provisions for the 4/30 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2015 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2015 directory.
• 2015 Special Provisions are in the Special_Provisions/2015 directory.

Additional notes and detail regarding this data release:

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) has released the 2016 Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA) and Appendices I, II, and IV, and the 2016 Livestock Price Reinsurance Agreement (LPRA) and Appendices I, II, and IV, which become effective July 1, 2015. The documents are located on the RMA website at: www.rma.usda.gov/policy-procedure/reinsurance-agreements. The draft Appendix III that provides standards, procedure and instructions for reporting data to RMA will be issued by May 10, 2015.