For the Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) approved 2023 CY harvest prices for insurance offers with a harvest price discovery period of July 1, 2023, through July 31, 2023. 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 August 3, 2023:

As of August 01, 2023 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2023 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2024 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Background

Farmers and ranchers are facing natural disasters in many parts of the nation causing catastrophic damage to crops. Concerns have been expressed about the requirement to pay crop insurance premiums timely to avoid accrual of interest.

Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation has expanded the number of counties where certain crops are insurable for the 2024 crop year having a June 30 contract change date. The following attachment, 2024 Expansion of Existing Fall 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 2024 crop year. 

DISPOSAL DATE: 
December 31, 2023. 

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 July 27, 2023 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2023 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 6/30, 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2024 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2024 Special Provisions for the 6/30 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Background

Excessive rainfall has caused catastrophic flooding in the Northeast United States. The Risk Management Agency (RMA) recognizes the need for authorizing emergency procedures to streamline certain determinations, including the destruction of adulterated production, to accelerate the adjustment of losses and issuance of indemnity payments to crop insurance policyholders in impacted areas.

Background

This Bulletin establishes the 2023 crop year Prune Reference Date. In addition, it provides Approved Insurance Providers with the average dry prune count per pound for calculating second-period immature prune appraisals.

Each year, the Davis Regional Office (DRO) establishes the Prune Reference Date. This date occurs one to two weeks after prune pit tip hardening when 80 to 90 percent of the seed shows the presence of endosperm, a clear jelly-like substance at the bloom end of the seed.

For the Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) approved 2023 CY harvest prices for insurance offers with a harvest price discovery period of June 1, 2023, through June 30, 2023. 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 July 6, 2023:

As of July 03, 2023 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2023 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2023 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2023 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

2023 ADM Price updated for the harvest price announcement, PM-23-038, 6/30 and 11/30 filings.