USDA Announces Risk Protection for Specialty Types of Barley
and Reminds Farmers and Ranchers of Multi-Peril Crop Insurance Program Dates
2/24/2010
Effective for the 2010 Crop Year, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) is
offering insurance coverage based on contract prices for all practices of
certain specialty types of barley (as reflected in the Special Provisions of
Insurance).
Specialty barley includes malting, waxy hulled, waxy hulless, and hulless
types, available in all MPCI barley counties in Idaho, Oregon and Washington
except the seven counties with a fall sales closing date for winter damage
protection on winter barley. Those seven counties: Cassia, Nez Perce and Payette
of Idaho; and Wasco and Umatilla of Oregon; and Klickitat and Yakima of
Washington, will have this new coverage for specialty barley types for the 2011
crop year. RMA encourages barley growers, to contact their crop insurance agent
well ahead of the March 15, 2010, spring sales closing date to learn how these
coverage enhancements might affect their current year’s risk management
decisions.
March 15th is also the final sales closing date for 2010 Adjusted Gross
Revenue-Lite (AGR-Lite) insurance for NEW APPLICATION/ENROLLMENT POLICIES in
Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington; as well as ALL other Spring seeded crop
insurance coverage (excluding wheat) in counties with Fall and Spring planted
types).
See:
http://egov.oregon.gov/ODA/risk_mgt.shtml for more on AGR and AGR-Lite and
risk management.
RMA also reminds producers of the important link between Federal
crop insurance and Farm Service Agency (FSA) Disaster Assistance programs for
the 2010 crop year. To maintain eligibility for FSA’s disaster programs,
producers must obtain a policy or plan of insurance of at least catastrophic
(CAT) level coverage if available. For those crops that are non-insurable,
coverage under the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program must also be
timely obtained. Producers are encouraged to visit with their local FSA office
to ensure they are in compliance with the new linkage requirements. If there is
no coverage in a county for a specific crop under the traditional MPCI program;
producers may ask a crop insurance agent whether they would be eligible for
coverage under a written agreement.
A list of crop insurance agents is available at all USDA Service
Centers throughout the U.S. or at the website address:
http://www3.rma.usda.gov/tools/agents/ |
