Release Notes 15.080.0

These release notes provide brief descriptions of changes included in eHarvest 15.080.0.

System Updates

Forms & Reports

DESCRIPTION ID #

SYPR: Beginning with the 2023 Reinsurance Year (RY), RMA will require production to be reported in the same RY in which acres are reported for all crops under Plans 01, 02, 03, 47, and 90 with the exception of lag year crops or crops with a 2-year module which will both continue to be supported in the Standard Production Reporting Mode for 2023 or until RMA converts them over to the new procedure. Here is a list of the excluded crops:

AZ (04) and CA (06) Citrus (0201 Grapefruit, 0202 Lemons, 0203 Tangelos, 0227 Oranges, 0309 Mandarins/Tangerines)
CA (06) and FL (12) Avocados (0019 – Plan 90)
Caneberries (6000)
Cigar Wrapper Tobacco (0236)
Macadamia Nuts (0023)
Sugarcane (0038)
TX (48) Citrus (0201 Grapefruit, 0227 Oranges)
Pomegranates (0467)
Sweet Potatoes (0156)

This ticket updated the Production Report to support Same Year Production Reporting (SYPR) plus updates for other requested items on the Production Report.

The Pre-print print option was removed.
"P = Precision Ag record exist" was added to the legend.
When the form is printed pre-filled, if a planted CLU exists with a PrecisionAg Indicator, a "P" will print behind the applicable field with a space separating the field data and the "P". Format example: 2A P.
SYPR – The form was updated to support capturing production for 2022, 2023, and 2024 reported acres for coverages that were flagged Same Year Production Reporting.
When the form is printed pre-filled, a Shareholder is linked to the unit, AND the Shareholder is indicated as Landlord / Tenant, "LLT" will print behind the Shareholder's Name with a space before it.
When the form is printed pre-filled, a Shareholder is linked to the unit, AND the Shareholder is indicated as Transfer of Right to Indemnity, "TOC" will print behind the Shareholder's Name with a space before it.
Multiple updates were made to the Record Type Legend.

142368

SYPR: This ticket updated the Production Reporting Worksheet to support Same Year Production Reporting (SYPR) and add other requested items on the Production Reporting Worksheet. The following changes are for all years unless specified otherwise:

The Pre-print print option was removed.
"P = Precision Ag record exist" was added to the legend.
When the form is printed pre-filled, if a planted CLU exists with a PrecisionAg Indicator, a "P" will print behind the applicable field with a space separating the field data and the "P". Format example: 2A P.
SYPR – The form was updated to support capturing production for 2022, 2023, and 2024 reported acres for coverages that were flagged Same Year Production Reporting. The form will now print a 2023 row for the unit under the 2022 line and above the land section, if applicable, followed by any available production data in the fields from the Fast Edit PR.
When the form is printed pre-filled, a Shareholder is linked to the unit, AND the Shareholder is indicated as Landlord / Tenant, "LLT" will print behind the Shareholder's Name with a space before it.
When the form is printed pre-filled, a Shareholder is linked to the unit, AND the Shareholder is indicated as Transfer of Right to Indemnity, "TOC" will print behind the Shareholder's Name with a space before it.
Multiple updates were made to the Record Type Legend.

148148

SYPR: This ticket updated the Actual Revenue History (ARH) to support Same Year Production Reporting (SYPR) and add other requested items on the ARH form. The following changes are for all years unless specified otherwise:

The Preliminary Yield and Revenue fields were added under the Prior fields.
SYPR – The form was updated to support capturing production for 2022, 2023, and 2024 reported acres for coverages that were flagged Same Year Production Reporting for ARH Cherries.
When the form is printed pre-filled, a Shareholder is linked to the unit, AND the Shareholder is indicated as Landlord / Tenant, "LLT" will print behind the Shareholder's Name with a space before it.
When the form is printed pre-filled, a Shareholder is linked to the unit, AND the Shareholder is indicated as Transfer of Right to Indemnity, "TOC" will print behind the Shareholder's Name with a space before it.

148156

Livestock: For 2024+, this ticket turned the current Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) Transfer of Rights to Indemnity (TOR) form into a generic Livestock TOR form that can support all Livestock plans per the 2024 Livestock Handbooks and M13 updates. With this ticket, for 2024+ only, the following updates have been made:

The Attachment Type list was updated to add "Livestock TOR" in alpha order with the other Attachment Type names.
"LRP TOR" was removed from the Attachment Type name list.
The name of the form on the LRP policy Print tab was changed from "Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) Transfer of Rights to Indemnity (TOR)" to "Livestock Transfer of Rights to Indemnity (TOR)". Report styles are the same with blank and pre-headed (pre-headed being the default) being available. No print options are available. This form is not available from in the Batch Printing menu.
The title of the form was changed from "Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) Transfer of Coverage and Right to an Indemnity (TOR)" to "Livestock Transfer of Coverage and Right to an Indemnity (TOR)".
The "Effective Date of Transfer" label and field were moved below the "Nature of Transfer" field. This is a user-filled field and will print blank.
In the "Check one of the boxes" section, in the second checkbox option, "shown" as added after "address" in the second sentence. Additionally, "the" was added after "for" in the same sentence.
In the Crop Information table:
The "Effective Date of Transfer" label was changed to "Effective Date". This column is user filled and will print blank.
The "End Date" label and column were removed.
The "Commodity" label was changed to "Crop / Commodity(s)". This column is user filled and will print blank.
The "Plan" label and column were added. This column is user filled and will print blank.
The "Endorsement Number" label was changed to "Endorsement #".
"% of Insured's" was removed from the Share Transferred label.
The "# of Head Transferred (LRP ONLY)" label and column were added. This column is user filled and will print blank.
The "Total Premium on Practice^ Transferred" label and column were added. This column is user filled and will print blank.
In the "Premium on Type Transferred" label, "Type" was changed to "Practice^": "Premium on Practice^ Transferred".
In the "Premium on Retained Type" label, "Type" was changed to "Practice^": "Premium on Retained Practice^".
Below the Crop Information table, Yes and No checkboxes with "Is the entire insured livestock commodity and the entire insured share on the listed type and practice being transferred?" were added. The checkboxes are user filled and will print blank.
In the Terms and Conditions section:
Item "A" changed to "1".
Item "(1)" changed to "a". Also, "and practice" was added after "type".
Item "(2)" changed to "b".
Item "(3)" was removed.
Item "B" changed to "2".
Item "C" changed to "3".
Item "D" changed to "4". Also, in the first sentence, "acreage" was changed to "Livestock commodity"; and this sentence was added as a second sentence, "The premium for the practice (For DRP: type and practice) is listed above."
The following Legend was added to all pages except the Statement Page: "Legend: ^For Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP) - Premium is based on Type and Practice".
The form # was changed from "787 LRP" to "935_787 LVK".
In the "See Last Page..." text, "Lifestock Risk Protection" was changed to "Livestock". Note that the spelling of "Lifestock" was updated to "Livestock" for all years of the form.
The "I understand..." verbiage above the Certification Statement was updated:
To remove "and due process letters" after "billing statements" in the first sentence.
To add the following sentence as a second sentence: "Due process / Ineligibility notification letters will be issued to both the Transferee and Transferor."

147234

Livestock: For 2024+, with this ticket, the current Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP) Transfer of Rights to Indemnity (TOR) form has been disabled, and a generic Livestock TOR form (implemented with TFS 147234) has been enabled in the System which will support all Livestock plans per the 2024 Livestock Handbooks and M13 updates. Additional changes made with this ticket include:

A generic Livestock TOR Attachment Type was added to the attachment types list.
For 2024+, "DRP TOR" was removed from the Attachment Type name list.
The generic Livestock TOR form:
Is available to print from the DRP policy Print tab and displays with a title of "Livestock Transfer of Rights to an Indemnity (TOR)" on the tab.
Is available to print in the following report styles: blank and pre-headed with pre-headed being the default.
Has no print options available.
Is not available to print from the Batch Printing menu.

144738

Livestock: For 2024+, with this ticket, the current Livestock Gross Margin (LGM) Transfer of Rights to Indemnity (TOR) form has been disabled, and a generic Livestock TOR form (implemented with TFS 147234) has been enabled in the System which will support all Livestock plans per the 2024 Livestock Handbooks and M13 updates. Additional changes made with this ticket include:

A generic Livestock TOR Attachment Type was added to the attachment types list.
For 2024+, "LGM TOR" was removed from the attachment types list.
The generic Livestock TOR form:
Is available to print from the LGM policy Print tab and displays with a title of "Livestock Transfer of Rights to an Indemnity (TOR)" on the tab.
Is available to print in the following report styles: blank and pre-headed with pre-headed being the default.
Has no print options available.
Is not available to print from the Batch Printing menu.

147252

Livestock: RMA has updated Livestock Gross Margin (LGM) for 2024 so that an assignment(s) of indemnity now applies to all liability remaining on the Livestock covered by the policy at the time the assignment is accepted by the AIP and any additional liability added for the Crop Year. For 2024, this means that the Livestock Assignment of Indemnity (AOI) Confirmation form applies for the entire policy. Changes were made with TFS 147261 in the 15.065 release for this, but additional items were found during testing once ADMs were released. With this ticket, the Livestock AOI form has been updated in the following ways:

When the form is printed with a pre-filled report style AND the policy is 2024+ LGM:
Only one line for each Creditor will print.
THEN, for the Commodity field, "All for policy" will print.
THEN, for the Effective Date field, "All for policy" will print.
THEN, for the Endorsement / Line # field, "N/A" will print.
THEN, the Practice and Type fields will print blank.

148729

Livestock: The Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP) Schedule of Insurance (SOI) has been updated in the following ways for all years (unless otherwise specified):

The revision date was changed to "08-2023".
For 2024+, the "Endorsement #" field and label were added to the beginning of the Detail Line table. Format example: 1. When the form is printed pre-filled, the Endorsement # linked to the Detail Line will print in this field.
If a Transfer of Right to Indemnity is linked to a Detail Line, "TOC Effective Date: " followed by the TOR Effective Date all in parentheses will print after the transferee name. Format example: George Simpson (TOC Effective: 11/30/2022).
A QR Code was added.

147093

Livestock: The Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) Schedule of Insurance (SOI) has been updated in the following ways for all years:

The version date was changed to "09-2023".
The Premium / Liability verbiage was removed.
If there is the Transfer of Right to Indemnity linked to the Detail Line, "TOC Effective Date: " followed by the TOR Effective Date all in parentheses will now print after the transferee name. Format example: George Simpson (TOC Effective: 11/30/2022).
A QR Code was added to the form.

142029

11/30 CCD SPOIs were updated and made available from RMA on June 28. The Special Provisions for 2023 Sweet Potatoes (0156) with APH (90) in Kansas (20) have been downloaded and implemented in the System.

150040

2024 Grass Seed Crop Provisions have been implemented in the System.

150034

CEPP Crop Provisions that will be effective for the 2024 CY have been implemented in the System.

149878

All three plans of insurance of the Production Revenue History (PRH) Pilot Program—Yield Protection (PRH-Y (Plan 21)), Revenue Protection (PRH-R (Plan 23)), and Revenue Protection Plus (PRH-P (Plan 22))—require both production and revenue reports. The production report is used to establish the APH database and the approved yield per acre. The revenue report is used to establish the revenue history. The same number of Crop Years from both the APH database and revenue history must be used to calculate the approved projected price used in establishing the protection guarantee per acre.

This ticket updated the form with 2024 PRH Handbook updates and cleaned up items for all years.

The Revenue descriptor was updated with changes to Yield Types and Descriptors.
When the form is blank and pre-headed, 3 blank databases print for each Revenue and Production section instead of only 2.
The Record Type Legend was updated with several items.

148151

RMA released Camelina Crop Provisions for the 2024 and succeeding CYs. The Camelina Crop Provisions that will be effective for the 2024 CY have been implemented in the System.

150037

SPOIs were updated and made available from RMA on June 27. The Special Provisions for 2023 Grass Seed (0102) – APH (90) – 9/30 SCD, 6/30 CCD – MN, ND have been downloaded and implemented in the System.

150039

The 2024 Hurricane Insurance Protection (HIP) Wind Index Endorsement has been implemented in the System.

150084

The updated Basic Crop Provisions that will be effective for 2024 and succeeding years for crops with a CCD on or after 6/30/23 and 2025 and succeeding years for crops with a CCD prior to 6/30/23 have been implemented in the System.

150083

This ticket implemented the 2024 ARPI Provisions.

150086

Margin Protection (MP) Crop Provisions that will be effective for the 2024+ Crop Years for Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat have been implemented in the System.

150256

Global

DESCRIPTION ID #

The Online Help Site was updated with topics as well as with current release notes.

149948

Livestock

DESCRIPTION ID #

LGM: With this ticket, the UI for Livestock Gross Margin (LGM) Specific Coverage Endorsements (SCEs) has been updated, allowing the user to add new SCE premium lines as well as view and edit them by effective date. The Add New Detail Line page, View Detail Line page, and Detail Lines tab for all three LGM commodities have been updated to flow similar to the DRP and LRP plans where users are able to create multiple detail lines for a Commodity at a time.

Users will now first select the Effective Date prior to selecting the Type and Practice. The Target Marketings grid that users are used to entering values in will now display as a sub-grid once the user selects the Type and Practice for each row in the Specific Coverage Endorsement Details grid. Users will have the option to add and view remarks for each row/detail line for an effective date. The Save & Print button logic has been updated so that the System now generates an SCE form for each detail line entered within the Add New and View Detail Line pages. On the LGM policy Detail Lines tab, the Add button was changed to read "Add Effective Date", and the "Line #" column header was updated to read "Endorsement #". No changes were made to the lockout logic for LGM.

147959

LRP: Following the re-design of the Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) Specific Coverage Endorsement (SCE) UI with TFS 141148, an additional enhancement was identified internally. With this ticket, the "Line #" label in column headers on the Add New/View Detail Line pages and the Detail Lines tab as well as the "Line #" leader in the "Line #" column for rows in the grid on the Add New/View Detail Line pages for LRP have been updated to display as "Endorsement #" for 2024+.

150328

Policy Management Dashboard: While reviewing the Livestock Policy Management Dashboard (Livestock > Policy Management Dashboard) internally, some enhancements were identified. The Detail Line Information popup needed to be updated for each plan (LGM, LRP, and DRP) to make the UI of the popup consistent across plans as well as to add the endorsement # to the DRP popup and the effective date to the LGM popup for 2024+.

With this ticket, the Detail Line Information popup UI on the Livestock Policy Management Dashboard (Livestock > Policy Management Dashboard > click the "i" icon in the Pricing Option / Price column [for DRP] -OR- Number of Head column [for LRP] -OR- Effective Date/Total # Insured column [for LGM]) for all three Livestock plans (DRP, LRP, LGM) has been updated to make the popup UI more consistent across the plans. These changes include:

On the DRP version of the popup, coverage information was added to the top of the popup, and endorsement # was added to the detail line information that populates on the popup below the coverage information.
On the LRP version of the popup, type, practice, and endorsement # information was moved from the top of the popup and included as separate fields with the detail line information that populates on the popup below the coverage information.
On the LGM version of the popup, type, practice, and endorsement # information was moved from the top of the popup and included as separate fields with the detail line information that populates on the popup below the coverage information. Effective date was also added to the detail line information on the popup.

150327

MPCI

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Annual Forage: For the 2024+ RYs, the RMA updated the Annual Forage policy to include 12 growing seasons instead of the previously offered 4 growing seasons. With 12 growing seasons, there are now 12 Acreage Reporting Dates and the standard offset will no longer work for policy processing. This ticket added new lockout date logic for 2024+ Annual Forage policies to account for 12 ARDs and the need for a shorter offset period. AIPs will be able to set their preferred offset length using a new System Preference, Acreage Reporting Date Offset_Annual Forage.

If the crop is Annual Forage, the Growing Season ARD + AIP offset = the lockout date for a GS' detail lines.
To remain consistent with other lockouts, day 1 will be equal to the Growing Season's ARD and then the processing window will be counted from there. E.g., Oct-Nov Interval 2024, Oct 5 ARD, October 5 = day 1.
If the current date is after the lockout, agents cannot add new detail lines or edit existing detail lines for the coverage.
The default lockout length is 16 days (ARD + 15 day processing) unless an AIP has requested a different length of time.

149063

PRF: As we worked our way through the 2024 Annual Forage Detail Line enhancements, a Land ID gap was found with Annual Forage that needed to also be addressed for PRF.

When saving Land ID and CLU records, after save of the Land ID modal, all Land ID and CLU records will now be applied to every PRF premium line within the Unit Grouping. Before this change, this was only happening if at least 1 CLU existed for the Unit Grouping. Records with FSN or FSN and Tract only were not being saved across all lines within the grouping until at least 1 CLU was applied. This may not be a common practice for PRF but needed to be addressed to make sure the Land IDs synced across all detail lines regardless.

150266