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Cotton

Actuarial 18-025

As of July 16, 2018 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

  • 2017 Actuarial Data Master for the 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
  • 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

PM-18-038

In accordance with Section 3 of the ARPI Crop Provisions, Section 9 of the STAX Crop Provisions, and Section 10 of the SCO Endorsement, approved final county yields, county revenues and payment factors for the 2017 crop year will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

PM-18-030

In accordance with Section 10 of the SCO Endorsement, approved final area yields for 2017 crop year Buckwheat, Burley Tobacco, Cigar Binder Tobacco, Corn, Cotton Ex Long Staple, 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 and Sweet Corn will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

MGR-18-003

Background

In areas of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, an increase in planted cotton acreage and subsequent high cotton yields have caused abnormal delays in the completion of the ginning process of harvested cotton production for the 2017 crop year. As a result, many cotton insureds in these three states will not have gin records of their 2017 cotton crop available by the production reporting date (PRD).

PM-18-025

Background

The Commodity Exchange Price Provisions (CEPP) are used in conjunction with either the Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions or the Area Risk Protection Insurance Basic Provisions, along with Crop Provisions for the following crops: barley, canola/rapeseed, corn, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, soybeans, sunflowers and wheat.

The CEPP specifies how and when the projected and harvest price components will be determined. The CEPP contains two sections:

PM-18-023

Background

In accordance with the Special Provisions statement in lieu of section 10(d)(1) of the Upland and ELS Cotton Crop Provisions, Price B will be established by adding premiums and/or discounts associated with the predominant cotton quality characteristics, as determined by the Farm Service Agency, to the Upland and ELS Cotton National Average Loan Rates. The predominant quality characteristics of cotton in each state are determined from the most recent three years of Agricultural Marketing Service cotton classing data.

MGR-18-001

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) has discovered that, due to a computer programming error, the 2018 crop year Stacked Income Protection premium rates in the actuarial documents are incorrect and are much lower than is actuarially sound. In accordance sections 506(o) and 508(d) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, RMA is mandated to maintain actuarial soundness; therefore, action must be taken to correct and reissue the actuarially appropriate rates for the 2018 crop year.

Actuarial 18-013

As of March 13, 2018 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

  • 2018 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
  • 2018 Special Provisions for the 11/30 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

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

Additional notes and details regarding this data release: