Canola

Common Crop Insurance Policy & Area Risk Protection Insurance ¹

The 2017 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 with the Harvest Price Exclusion. The harvest prices are applicable for the crops, sales closing dates, states, practices and types indicated in the following table.

Hybrid canola seed production is a process where seed companies contract with producers to plant and grow male and female parent plants which cross-pollinate to produce canola with specific and controlled traits. Hybrid canola seed has been grown in parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Washington and Idaho for the past 20 years and more recently in parts of Montana and North Dakota. Some 2013 estimates put the amount of U.S. acreage contracted at around 30,000 acres.

As of September 15, 2017 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2017 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 8/31, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2018 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

As of August 28, 2017 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2018 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 8/31, 9/30, 10/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2018 Special Provisions for the 6/30, 8/31, 10/31 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

As of August 16, 2017 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2018 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2018 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2018 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

As of November 29, 2016 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2017 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30, 12/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2017 Special Provisions for the 11/30, 12/31 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) published a Final Rule with Comment in the Federal Register, effective for the 2017 and succeeding crop years, which revised the Crop Provisions that contained Prevented Planting coverage levels for all crops with a 2017 contract change date on or after November 23, 2016, and for the 2018 and succeeding crop years for all crops with a 2017 contract change date prior to November 23, 2016.