Release Notes 8.040.0

RMA has introduced Point of Reference with the 2020 Rainfall and Vegetation Index Handbook as an acreage reporting requirement to report Latitude and Longitude with Acreage Reporting. This ticket is for printing the Point of Reference data on the API / PRF Combo Form. The API / PRF Combo Form has been updated in the following way for all years: the Point of Reference field will be blank (i.e., will be a user-filled field) unless the form is being printed with a pre-filled report style; when printed with this report style, the Latitude and Longitude for the Grid ID will print if one has been entered.

It was reported to MCT that the Production Report was printing zero values in the year where the production needs to be reported when the form was printed with the "Pre-print for next year" print option selected. The Production Report was updated to not print zero values in the year where production needs to be reported when the form is being printed with the "Pre-print for next year" print option selected.

NOTE: When the Production Report is printed with PP acres, the form is printing zeros. MCT is working on this piece in the 8.045 release with TFS #97264.

RMA made some additional updates to the BFR Application in the 2020 DSSH for WFRP, and some of the changes were additional updates to what RMA announced in March 2019 with Bulletin MGR-19-004 for WFRP. The BFR Application has been updated in the following ways for all years:

WFRP: In 2017, in the 6.035 release with TFS #67311, functionality was implemented to allow users to key an Estimated MPCI Liability value. AIPs requested this functionality due to the timing difference between reporting commodities on a WFRP policy and reporting acreage on the underlying MPCI policy. The way this functionality previously worked is if a value existed in the Estimated MPCI Liability field on the Income/Expense Record and a value did not exist in the standard MPCI Liability field, the System would use the Estimated MPCI Liability value in the calculation of premium and liability on the WFRP policy. In addition, when premium and liability was calculated using the Estimated MPCI Liability value, the EstimatedMPCILiabilityFlag in the database was set to "true". This flag allowed forms functionality to determine which field to pull MPCI Liability from (MPCI Liability or Estimated MPCI Liability) as well as to print an indicator notifying the grower that premium and liability values were calculated using Estimated MPCI Liability.

Following the implementation of this functionality, AIPs began receiving P19-72846 errors. These errors were traced back to the use of the Estimated MPCI Liability in the premium calculations. Since the Estimated MPCI Liability does not transmit to RMA, PASS calculates premium without an MPCI Liability value; however, the System was calculating premium using the Estimated MPCI Liability, causing the System and PASS to determine different premium amounts.

Given all this, AIPs requested the Estimated MPCI Liability functionality be redesigned to prevent P19 errors for premium. To account for this, with this ticket, separate database fields were be added to allow the System to calculate and store WFRP premium calculated using Estimated MPCI Liability separately from WFRP premium without the Estimated MPCI Liability as needed for transmission on the P19 Record.

With this ticket, the following changes have been made for the 2020+ RYs:

2020 API Special Provisions were updated and made available from RMA in August. The following Special Provisions for 2020 have been downloaded with 2020_SPOI_0831.zip:

2020 Avocados, Almonds, and Peaches Special Provisions were updated and made available from RMA on 8/8/2019. The following Special Provisions for 2020 have been downloaded with 2020_SPOI_0831.zip:

The SPOIs can be printed with the Policy Declaration Page by selecting the "All Provisions" option.

2020 Blueberries Special Provisions were updated and made available from RMA on 8/8/2019. The following Special Provisions for 2020 have been downloaded with 2020_SPOI_0831.zip:

The SPOIs can be printed with the Policy Declaration Page by selecting the "All Provisions" option.

2020 Cherries Special Provisions were updated and made available from RMA on 8/23/2019. The following Special Provisions for 2020 have been downloaded with 2020_SPOI_0831.zip:

The SPOIs can be printed with the Policy Declaration Page by selecting the "All Provisions" option.

2020 Grapes Special Provisions were updated and made available from RMA on 9/13/2019. The following Special Provisions for 2020 have been downloaded with 2020_SPOI_0831.zip:

The SPOIs can be printed with the Policy Declaration Page by selecting the "All Provisions" option.

2020 Mac Trees Special Provisions were updated and made available from RMA on 8/8/2019. The following Special Provisions for 2020 have been downloaded with 2020_SPOI_0831.zip:

The SPOIs can be printed with the Policy Declaration Page by selecting the "All Provisions" option.

2020 WFRP Special Provisions were updated and made available from RMA in August. The following Special Provisions for 2020 have been downloaded with 2020_SPOI_0831.zip:

With the 8.035 release, the System was updated to collapse the Shareholder, Land ID, and Planted Field banner bars at the initial load of the Maintain APH page. All functionality still continued to exist when the banners were expanded and users were still able to navigate to the Shareholder, Land ID, and/or Planted Field pages from the APH but the data associated with these banners was not rendered on the initial load of the page. With this ticket, the same logic was implemented on the Maintain Detail Line page. The System was updated with this ticket to have the same functionality as the Maintain APH page at load of the Maintain Detail Line page. The banners will display collapsed at load of the page, allowing the Maintain Detail Line page to load much quicker and work more efficiently for System users.