Kim Arrigo

On December 23, 2019, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) issued a press release announcing a new crop insurance option for hemp growers in select counties in Alabama, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin. https://www.rma.usda.gov/en/News-Room/Press/Press-Releases/2019-News/USDA-Announces-Pilot-Insurance-Coverage-for-Hemp-Growers. Coverage is …

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On December 23, 2019, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) issued Managers Bulletin: MGR-19-029, which involved determining eligible prevented planting acreage when the contracted crop acreage is reduced. https://www.rma.usda.gov/en/Policy-and-Procedure/Bulletins-and-Memos/2019/MGR-19-029. RMA states the bulletin is addressing those situations where some insureds had reduced contracted acreage in 2019, which were not reduced solely due to prevented planting (e.g. …

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On December 19, 2019, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) issued Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding the breached levee statement. https://www.rma.usda.gov/en/News-Room/Frequently-Asked-Questions/Breached-Levee-Statement. The FAQs provides answers to questions regarding the statement contained in certain Special Provisions in the Actuarial Documents. The Special Provisions statement reads: “Land flooded due to a breach in a levee resulting from prior …

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On December 5, 2019, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) issued a reminder to all producers who received “top-up payments” that they need to purchase crop insurance for the next two years. https://www.rma.usda.gov/en/News-Room/Press/Stakeholder-Information/2019-News/RMA-Reminds-Producers-Who-Received-Top-Up-Payments. RMA stated that producers who received a prevented planting payment in 2019 for flooding, excess moisture, and causes other than drought automatically received …

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On December 2, 2019, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) issued Product Management Bulletin: PM-19-072 announcing the 2019 Common Crop Insurance Policy and Area Risk Protection Insurance harvest prices for certain crops and states. https://www.rma.usda.gov/en/Policy-and-Procedure/Bulletins-and-Memos/2019/PM-19-072. ANALYSIS – For the crops and states contained in PM-19-072: For corn in Idaho, Michigan, Oregon and Washington the price decreased …

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https://www.rma.usda.gov/-/media/RMAweb/Policies/Sugar-Beets/2020/Sugar-Beet-Crop-Provisions-20-039.ashxOn November 29, 2019, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) issued a number of documents related to changes made to the Sugar Beet Crop Provisions effective for the 2020 and succeeding crop years for states with a November 30, 2019 contract change date and 2021 and succeeding crop years for all other states. Those documents include …

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On November 27, 2019, the Risk Management Agency issued Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding the 2019 Corn Harvest in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. https://www.rma.usda.gov/News-Room/Frequently-Asked-Questions/2019-Corn-Harvest-in-the-Upper-Midwest-Great-Plains-States. Most of the FAQs involve the inability to harvest the crop by the end of the insurance period. With respect to unharvested acreage at the end of the …

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On November 27, 2019, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) published Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) for the cropping practices of “following another crop” and “not following another crop”, which are used to determine insurability of a crop following another crop that meets the conditions specified in the Special Provisions. https://www.rma.usda.gov/News-Room/Frequently-Asked-Questions/2019-Corn-Harvest-in-the-Upper-Midwest-Great-Plains-States. RMA provides the definition of “double …

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