Sesame

As of November 25, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2021 Actuarial Data Master for the 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2021 Special Provisions for the 11/30 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2021 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2021 directory.
• 2021 Special Provisions are in the Special_Provisions/2021 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

Background

On March 4, 2020, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors approved a program expansion for sesame in 8 counties in Georgia and Alabama and approved an expansion by written agreement for 55 counties without actuarial documents for the crop in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia for 2021 and succeeding crop years.

The program expansion was approved for the following counties:

As of November

In accordance with Section 10 of the SCO Endorsement, approved Final Area Yields and Final Area Revenues for the 2016 crop year will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

As of November 19, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2021 Actuarial Data Master for the 11/30, 12/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2021 Special Provisions for the 11/30, 12/31 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

In accordance with Section 10 of the SCO Endorsement, approved final area yields for 2019 crop year Buckwheat, Burley Tobacco, Cigar Binder Tobacco, Corn, Cucumbers, Dark Air Tobacco, Dry Beans, Fire Cured Tobacco, Flax, Flue Cured Tobacco, Grain Sorghum, Green Peas, Hybrid Corn Seed, Hybrid Seed Rice, Hybrid Sorghum Seed, Millet, Mustard, Peanuts, Popcorn, Processing Beans, Pumpkins, Rice, Sesame, Silage Sorghum, Soybeans, Sugar Beets, Sunflowers, Sweet Corn, and 11/30 Tomatoes will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

In accordance with Section 10 of the SCO Endorsement, approved final area yields for 2018 crop year Buckwheat, Burley Tobacco, Cigar Binder Tobacco, Corn, Cucumbers, Dark Air Tobacco, Dry Beans, Fire Cured Tobacco, Flax, Flue Cured Tobacco, Grain Sorghum, Green Peas, Hybrid Corn Seed, Hybrid Seed Rice, Hybrid Sorghum Seed, Millet, Mustard, Peanuts, Popcorn, Processing Beans, Pumpkins, Rice, Sesame, Silage Sorghum, Soybeans, Sugar Beets, Sunflowers, Sweet Corn, and Tomatoes with a November 30th Contract Change Date will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) has received requests from the American Sesame Growers Association to expand the Sesame Pilot Program. On November 15, 2018, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors approved expansion of the Sesame Pilot Program to 36 counties and approved expansion by written agreement to 252 counties in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas for 2019 and succeeding crop years.

The expansion was approved for the following counties: