Release Notes 8.070.0

Changes were made to the Schedule of Insurance (SOI) charges with this ticket to make the SOI easier to read and to make four important data items stand out for the Grower: Crop, Grid ID, Total Insured Acres, and Insured’s Premium.

Also, now that Annual Forage can have the Dual Use (DU) option selected, the Option field was added to the Annual Forage format of the SOI.

Margin Protection: MCT received a request to add Margin Protection (MP) information to the Crop Summary when the MP coverage is linked to an associated MPCI coverage on the Acreage Report CLU form. The initial rollout of the Acreage Report CLU form was limited to crops and plans to control the scope at the initial rollout.

With this ticket, the Acreage Report CLU form's Crop Summary was updated to print coverage information for MP, MP-HPO, STAX-RP, and STAX-RPHPE coverages when they are associated with an underlying MPCI Coverage.

The 2020 RY Spot Checklist Handbook was issued by RMA. There is a new publication requirement that must be posted to each AIP's website as well as provided in writing annually to all insureds. It has been requested to have the required-in-writing-annually requirement be met by adding the Statement to Policy Declaration Pages for MPCI and Livestock.

The following changes have been made to all five formats of the MPCI Policy Declaration Page (Pasture, Rangeland, Forage [PRF] / Apiculture [API], Whole-Farm Revenue Protection [WFRP], Nursery, Annual Forage, and All Other Crops) as well as the Livestock Policy Declaration Page for LGM, LRP, and DRP for all years:

<AIP LONG NAME>, as an Approved Insurance Provider (AIP), is required to inform all insured producers that:

(1) AIPs will be assisting RMA in monitoring crop conditions throughout the growing season.

(2) AIPs will refer all suspected cases of fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal crop insurance to RMA.

WFRP: The WFRP Schedule of Insurance (SOI) was revised extensively to account for the 2020 WFRP Handbook changes.

NOTE: TFS #Ticket #110239 will add the Vertically Integrated Producer (VIP) field to the WFRP SOI, and TFS Ticket #112550 is a spin-off ticket to finish a couple of items, including the placement and printing of the legend and how the Revenue & Expenses table handles printing when a policy does not qualify for indexing procedures.

WFRP: A request was made to add an indicator when the WFRP coverage has Vertically Integrated Producer elected. With this ticket, the indicator has been added for all years:

NOTE: Some of the commodities do not have a WFRP Commodity Code those will print like this: ( ).

For the Schedule of Insurance (SOI) and SOI / Production Report, a rule has been updated to print premium information for Plans 04, 05, and 06 detail lines. This update applies to all years.

Livestock: With this ticket, effective dates have been added to the detail line selection under the Schedule of Insurance forms for both LRP and DRP policies (no changes were made for LGM as each detail line has its own coverage which can be identified by the various Insurance Periods), Additionally, the following issues have been resolved:

The Conservation Compliance Certification form has been updated in the following ways for all years:

Enterprise Units: TFS #98357 redesigned the EU/EP override and verification functionality. The new functionality included a new popup that is launched from the Additional Functions dropdown to manage unit structure. This new ticket has been set up to add access to this new popup from the Fast Edit AR page as well.

With this ticket, a button was added to the Fast Edit AR page so users can access the new Manage Unit Structure popup from within the Fast Edit AR improve the efficiency. The new button will only display for coverages with the Unit Option code of "EU" or "EP" and is only applicable for 2020+ RYs. When the button is clicked, the System will invoke the Manage Unit Structure popup that was added with TFS #98357. There were no changes to the display/functionality/validations of the Manage Unit Structure popup with the following exception:

If the Manage Unit Structure popup is accessed via the Fast Edit AR page, the "Coverage will be marked complete upon Save & Exit" message is removed. The System will bypass the Mark Complete logic upon Save & Exit of the popup. The Mark Complete will be done either at the final save of the Fast Edit AR, if selected, or the user will need to perform a manual Mark Complete on the coverage, if they choose to bypass the Mark Complete upon save of the Fast Edit AR.

Native Sod: As part of the new 2018 Farm Bill, RMA issued a new Program Indicator Code of "N8" for Native Sod. This code will apply when the ground was tilled after December, 20th 2018. Otherwise, the existing Program Indicator Code of "NS" will continue to apply. This ticket addressed providing a field for users to indicate whether acreage was tilled after December 20th, 2018 or not. Actual transmission of the new "N8" Program Indicator Code will be addressed with TFS #111605.

With this ticket, a field for "Acreage tilled after 12/20/2018" was added to the Internal Native Sod Written Agreement page. This field will only display if the NS Breakout Year is "2018".

Added Land: Per the Spring Train the Trainer Slides, RMA is updating the SA T-Yield procedures to allow use of an SA T-Yield so long as a Master Yield is not elected and approved. Previously, SA T-Yields were not available for crop/counties where Master Yields were available, regardless of if a Master Yield was elected/approved.

For the 2020+ RYs, if the commodity and state allow Master Yield procedures, the Added Land logic has been updated to now allow Simple Averages so long as no Master Yield Summary Unit exists for the coverage. This change in logic has been updated on all pages where Added Land-Simple Averages can be established: Legacy APH, Fast Edit PR (via the APH Drawer), and the Additional Functions (via the "Apply Current Year SA T-Yields" option).