USDA insurance coverage
WASHINGTON, D.C. - High
production farmers will be able to
get higher crop insurance
coverage next spring without
paying increasedpremium costs to
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's Federal Crop In
surance Corporation.
Merritt Sprague, manager of the
USDA corporation, said the higher
coverage will be available to
fanners who plant corn, cotton,
grain sorghum, rice, soybeans,
wheat and barley in the spring of
1983 under changes in the cor
poration’s individual yield
coverage plan.
Sprague said the 1982 plan
required farmers to provide
satisfactory acreage and
production records for at least the
most recent three years a crop was
grown out of a 10-year period. Area
average yields were used for years
for which the farmer had no
records.
Under the new plan for 1983
spring-planted crops, he said, the
producer’s records will continue to
be used in the same manner except
that coverage is based on a revised
yield formula.
That formula: Production
records for at least the most recent
3 years are compared with county
yield averages to arrive at a
producer yield index. This index
then is applied to the county yield
average as computed by the
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USDA’s Statistical Reporting
Service for those years of the 10-
year base period for which the
farmer has inadequate records.
“We believe this approach will
better reflect the risks taken by top
producers,” Sprague said.
“Farmers will be able to qualify
for higher ‘ production guarantees
without increasing their per acre
insurance cost This plan will make
crop insurance a more attractive
component in a farmer’s risk
management plan.”
Sprague said the USDA cor
poration has devised an additional
plan on grain sorghum, corn and
small grains to provide increased
coverage to farmers who feed their
crop production to livestock or
poultry and who don’t have the
records to qualify for the in
dividual yield coverage plan.
This modified individual yield
plan requires actual records for
only one year plus records for two
years which may be certified by
the USDA’s Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service. The USDA-certified
records are based on the best
available information.
Consideration will be given to the
producer’s livestock enterprises,
feeding records, fertilization
program, soil and water con
servation practices and other
management practices. The
remaining years of the 10-year
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changed for higher production farmers
Sheep Council sets new directions
DENVER, Col. American
Sheep Producers Council directors
and delegates unanimously ap
proved ASPC’s strategic plan as
presented by a producer com
mittee during the group’s annual
meeting, held here last month.
The plan, containing short term
and five-year goals, charts new
directions for the AS PC with more
emphasis being placed on in
creasing producer profit op
portunities. Formulated by
representatives from the ASPC,
Sheep Industry Development Inc.,
National Wool Growers
Association, and the National
Lamb feeders Association, the
new plan has three major result
areas; lamb marketing services,
wool marketing services, and
producer information and ser
vices.
NLFA President Phil Huber
explained that the strategic plan
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base period will be calculated by
adjusting the county average as
computed by the Statistical
Reporting Service.
The individual certified yield
plan becomes effective with the
1983 crop year. Those producers
who acquire acceptable yield
records for throe vears will
become eligible for the individual
yield coverage plan.
Under the individual certified
yield plan, higher coverages
require additional premium per
acre; under the individual yield
coverage plan, they do not.
For both +he Federal Crop
puts lamb advertising and mer
chandising in position as part of a
total marketing plan. Efforts will
concentrate on marketing a
quality product which is well
packaged, distributed and
marketed at the proper time for a
fair price.
ASPC’s wool area will place an
increasing emphasis on raw wool
merchandising, sales promotion,
and trade advertising according to
NWGA President Don Meike. Wool
experts also will work on ways to
increase the quality of American
pelts and establish them as the
premium standard for the pelt
market as prices above the world
market.
Producer information and
services will contain the sheep
industry development and
blueprint programs, but place
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Insurance Corporation will assist
in maintaining the records at no
charge to the producer.
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service offices will
provide the appropriate forms and
assist farmers in establishing yield
data.
more emphasis on livestock
marketing and analysis. Producer
services will establish a data base
of crucial trends and statistics on
lamb, wool, by-products, sheep,
exports, and competitive meats for
use by the Council and the in
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