Organic Cotton

BACKGROUND:

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) derives prices for certain programs by applying factors and premiums in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Price Provisions (CEPP). The factors and premiums for organic cotton, organic flax, grain sorghum, popcorn, organic popcorn, rice, confectionery sunflowers, and organic sunflowers are provided below.

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) derives prices for certain programs by applying factors and premiums to conventional projected and harvest prices established in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Price Provisions (CEPP). The factors and premiums for organic rice, organic cotton, popcorn, organic popcorn, confectionery sunflowers, organic sunflowers, and grain sorghum are provided below.

Action

Organic Rice Price Factor

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) derives prices for certain programs by applying factors and premiums to conventional projected and harvest prices established in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Price Provisions (CEPP). The factors and premiums for organic rice, organic cotton, popcorn, organic popcorn, confectionery sunflowers, organic sunflowers, grain sorghum, and organic oats are provided below.

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) derives prices for certain programs by applying factors and premiums to conventional projected and harvest prices established in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Price Provisions (CEPP). The factors and premiums for organic rice, organic cotton, popcorn, organic popcorn, confectionery sunflowers, and organic sunflowers are provided below.

Action

Organic Rice Price Factor

Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance¹

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) derives prices for certain programs by applying factors and premiums to conventional projected and harvest prices established in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Price Provisions (CEPP). The factors and premiums for organic rice, organic cotton, popcorn and organic popcorn are provided below.

Action

Organic Rice Price Factor

Background

Organic Rice Price Factor

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) offers distinct organic practice rice prices. The definitions and specifications for the organic practice rice prices are provided in the ‘Commodity Exchange Price Provisions (CEPP) Section II: Rice’ document.

The following 2020 CY organic practice price factor will be applied to the conventional practice rice prices, in accordance with the CEPP, to derive the organic practice rice prices:

Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance ¹

The 2019 CY harvest prices shown below are approved for the following plans of insurance: Revenue Protection, Area Revenue Protection, Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion, and Area Revenue Protection – Harvest Price Exclusion. The harvest prices are applicable for the crops, sales closing dates, states, types, and practices indicated in the following table.

Common Crop Insurance Policy & Area Risk Protection Insurance ¹