Page 62 - MFB State Annual Meeting 2018 -- RESOLUTIONS BOOK

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1.2.37. Farm owner/operator choice to combine or separate farms, tracts or fields rather than being designated as a single farm unit;
1.2.38. The structuring of crop insurance policies so that premiums do not continue to increase for producers whose APH yields are lowered due to multi-year losses;
1.2.39. Allowing new producers and/or beginning farmers to use county RMA averages instead of the T-yield when establishing yield for federal crop insurance;
1.2.40. Adjusting crops at or below harvest cost to be considered a zero level of production;
1.2.41. The removal of "production to count" from all crop insurance policies;
1.2.42. USDA developing standard production evidence procedures for both FSA and crop insurance purposes;
1.2.43. Making Area Risk Protection Insurance (ARPI) policies available in all counties;
1.2.44. Requiring USDA to release the individual county final yield averages needed for ARPI policies one month prior to the deadline for the crop insurance sales closing date for the federal crop insurance program;
1.2.45. Using actual production yields rather than NASS survey yields to calculate ARPI insurance policies;
1.2.46. Requiring crop insurance agents to receive training and pass a written examination on each specific crop they wish to be certified to sell;
1.2.47. Abolishing or modifying the "one-in-three" rule that requires a farmer to plant and harvest a particular program crop at least one out of three years in a field in order for that crop to be eligible for crop insurance;
1.2.48. Exempting a year that is declared a disaster from the "one-in- three" calculation;
1.2.49. A crop insurance policy provision to provide coverage due to regulation of a quarantined disease;
1.2.50. Trend Yield adjustments for all insurable commodities;
1.2.51. Provisions that allow increasing APH when adopting new
technologies such as drip irrigation;
1.2.52. Allowing harvested apples and peaches, regardless of the
intended use, to be counted toward yield and APH;
1.2.53. Reducing the legal weight for one bushel of apples from 42
pounds to 40 pounds for all states as defined in USDA’s Apple
Crop Insurance Provisions;
1.2.54. Elimination of the "staged production guarantee";
1.2.55. Making permanent the emergency rule allowing winter cover
crops to be harvested in the spring without jeopardizing crop insurance eligibility for the primary crop planted after the winter crop is harvested;
1.2.56. Adopting conservation practices to control soil and nutrient loss on acres that are eligible to receive prevented planting payments;
1.2.57. Requiring crop insurance premium due dates to be set based on harvest zone times and due when crops are harvested, not before;
1.2.58. A producer receiving an APH based on the settlement yield when a canning field is "passed" for harvest;
1.2.59. Producers who rotate crops being allowed to qualify for county average when calculating yields for the purpose of federal crop insurance on acres producing crops historically grown in their geographic area;
1.2.60. Allowing farmers to separately insure by practice, such as double cropping, irrigation/non-irrigation, or organic/non- organic as part of either a basic or an enterprise unit so that neither crop’s claim calculation impacts the other;
1.2.61. A farmer receiving a portion of their claim (50-75 percent) when the toxin level qualifies the grain as a total loss and the farmer is eligible for a claim. The balance of the money should be paid when the grain is completely disposed;
1.2.62. A crop insurance program which allows the use of all elevator quality factors conducted by certified graders using certified