Cotton

Background

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation has expanded the number of counties where certain crops are insurable for the 2018 crop year. The following attachment, 2018 Expansion of Existing Spring Crops Programs, lists the expansion by crop, state, and county for permanently-established (non-pilot) programs.

Action

Approved Insurance Providers should advise agents and in turn producers of the expanded county crop programs for the 2018 crop year to allow producers the opportunity to purchase crop insurance.

As of August 11, 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 8/31, 9/30, 10/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2018 Special Provisions for the 8/31, 9/30, 10/31 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

As of July 17, 2017 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2016 Actuarial Data Master for the 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2017 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2018 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

As of July 13, 2017 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2016 Actuarial Data Master for the 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

• 2016 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2016 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

As of April 14, 2017 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2016 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2017 Actuarial Data Master for the 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2018 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Background

The CEPP peanut factors necessary to establish the insured’s amount of protection under the peanut program for the 2017 CY are identified below. The factors are applied to the commodity prices for wheat, cotton, soybean oil, and soybean meal during the discovery period of December 15, 2016 to January 14, 2017. These factors apply only to states with a Sales Closing Date (SCD) of January 31, 2017.

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The 2016 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, practices, sales closing dates and states indicated in the following table.

Background

The Agricultural Act of 2014 (Farm Bill) instructed the Risk Management Agency (RMA) to offer the Stacked Income Protection Plan of Insurance (STAX) to upland cotton producers which became effective for the 2015 insurance year and was available in all counties where insurance for upland cotton is available (see MGR-14-011).

After considering feedback and input from various program participants, RMA is making the following modification to the STAX program:

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: