6.110.0 Release Notes

TFS #44164 added print logic for the Production Report form on policies with 200+ detail lines when the printing is done within the Print tab of that policy where, when the print button was clicked, the job was sent to the Service Bus to generate, which required the user to go to the Print Queue to retrieve it. AIPs requested that the logic be updated so the user no longer has to go to the Print Queue to retrieve the generated form. With this ticket, the print logic was updated for the Production Report form so users no longer have to retrieve large Production Reports from the Print Queue (Tools > Dashboard > Print Queue). This change is only applicable to the Production Report form when the policy has 200+ detail lines.

With this ticket, Planting Pattern now prints on the Acreage Report. Additionally, these other updates were made:

These updates are for all years and all report styles.

With this ticket, Planting Pattern now prints on the APH Database / Acreage Reporting Form behind the Practice code when applicable to the selections on the premium line (e.g., NIRR-SR (063) (6x1)).

NOTE: The version date was not updated since this is not a new format, just additions to the data that prints on the form.

This ticket implemented the following updates to the Plant Inventory Value Report (PIVR) to assist the Grower in identifying when the "BL" option code has been elected.

Updates to the PIVR are applicable for all crop years. The PIVR is available to print from the MPCI Print tab and in Batch Printing.

A few items were reported to MCT on the Supplemental Land Page during the 6.105 UAT cycle. The updates made with this ticket are applicable to all years.

The Supplemental Land Worksheet / Page is currently available to print as a stand-alone form or with the following forms:

Yield Cup: In the 6.075.0 release, APH logic was updated to account for RMA's conversion of the Yield Cup procedures to the new Yield Cup "YC" option in 2018 for crops with an 11/30 or later Filing Date and for all crops in 2019 (see TFS #82114 for more information regarding the Yield Cup changes for 2018 and 2019). As part of these Yield Cup changes, the calculations of the Yield Cup of Contract Seed Beans (CSB) and Contract Seed Peas (CSP) have been impacted.

When determining the cupped yield for CSB and CSP, the prior year yield must first be multiplied by the most recent year’s Reference Year Adjustment Factor (RYAF) and then by 90%. The value determined through this calculation is the cupped yield for CSB and CSP. If this value is greater than the yield calculated using other methods (YA, TA, YE) or greater than or equal to the yield floor, then the Yield Cup applies.

This is a testing-only ticket to confirm the changes in 6.075.0 accounted for the additional calculation for CSB and CSP. No code changes were made as part of this ticket. All APH calculation changes for YC were implemented with TFS #82114 in the 6.075 release.

With Informational Memorandum PM-18-013, RMA announced some APH changes for crops produced under organic practices in certain Texas counties. As part of the updated procedures, organic practices (both certified and transitional) have been removed for Corn (0041), Cotton (0021), Grain Sorghum (0051), and Soybeans (0081) in the following counties:

Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria, Brooks, Burleson, Calhoun, Caldwell, Cameron, Chambers, Colorado, Comal, DeWitt, Dimmit, Duval, Fayette, Fort Bend, Frio, Galveston, Goliad, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Harris, Hays, Hidalgo, Jackson, Jefferson, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kenedy, Kleberg, La Salle, Lavaca, Lee, Liberty, Live Oak, Matagorda, Maverick, McMullen, Medina, Nueces, Orange, Refugio, San Patricio, Starr, Travis, Victoria, Washington, Webb, Wharton, Willacy, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavala.

These crops may be eligible to be insured under the organic practices by a written agreement; however, if a written agreement is not requested or written agreement criteria are not met, the crop may be insured as conventional practices. RMA will still require separate APH databases for conventional, certified organic, and organic transitional practices; conventional and organic APHs will not be allowed to be combined. In order to track organic acreage being insured under a conventional practice, RMA has added two new APH Procedural Exception Codes.

Any APH databases for certified organic or transitional organic acreage being insured under a conventional practice must be identified by one of these APH Procedural Exception Codes; furthermore, if less than 4 years of actual history exists, standard variable T-Yield procedures apply. This includes the use of the T-Yield for the conventional type and practice. However, in the event an SA T-Yield applies, the SA T-Yield will be calculated using only APHs reflecting the same "O" or "T" APH procedural exception code.

In order to account for these changes, System updates were needed to allow selection of the "O" and "T" APH Procedural Exception Codes on the detail line. In addition, the Simple Average T-Yield calculation needed to be updated to consider these new APH Procedural Exception Codes. See PM-18-013 for more information on changes to organic practice procedures in Texas. With this ticket, the following changes were made: