Supplemental Coverage Option

In accordance with Section 15 of the ARPI Crop Provisions, Section 14 of the MP Crop Provisions and Section 10 of the SCO Endorsement, approved final county yields, final county revenues, harvest revenues and harvest margins for the 2018/2019 crop year will be available by close of business today in the following formats:

Additional Price Elections:

In accordance with section 3(e)(1) of the Basic Provisions, RMA is providing additional price elections for selected APH and SCO dry bean types and dry pea types with a March 15, 2020, SCD.

Background

On November 15, 2019, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors approved the Hurricane Insurance Protection – Wind Index (HIP-WI) Endorsement. It is available for the 2020 crop year for both Catastrophic (CAT) and additional coverage for Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions policies, when provided in the actuarial documents, in counties located in the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, as well as Hawaii.

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

• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 11/30, 1/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 Special Provisions for the 1/31 Filing Date.

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• 2020 Actuarial Data Master are in the References/Actuarial_Data_Master/2020 directory.
• 2020 Special Provisions are in the Special_Provisions/2020 directory.

Additional notes and details regarding this data release:

As of January 15, 2020 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

As of December 20, 2019 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 8/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 Actuarial Data Master for the 4/30, 6/30, 11/30, 1/31 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 Special Provisions for the 1/31 Filing Date.

Users can find this information in the following directories:

Background

The Agriculture Risk Protection (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA) allow for annual enrollment. In accordance with the Federal Crop Insurance Act (Act), acreage enrolled in ARC or PLC cannot be covered under STAX and acreage with ARC elected cannot be covered under the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO). In June of 2019 the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) released a revised SCO policy for the 2020 crop year containing provisions relating to acreage reporting when producers are participating in ARC or PLC.

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:

As of September 16, 2019 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2019 Actuarial Data Master for the 6/30, 11/30 Filing Date, YTD, and Daily Files.
• 2020 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 July 30, 2019 the following information is now available on the FTP site:

• 2018 Actuarial Data Master for the 8/31, 11/30, 12/31 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: