Page 63 - MFB State Annual Meeting 2018 -- RESOLUTIONS BOOK

testing equipment. These factors include moisture, foreign material, test weight, damage, alpha-amylase enzyme and mycotoxins;
1.2.63. Rule changes that would allow farmers to recover commodity losses under the crop insurance program if they have been adversely affected by erroneous information given out by FDA and USDA;
1.2.64. Legislation which strongly addresses crop insurance fraud;
1.2.65. The Pasture, Rangeland and Forestry (PRF) program being
based on smaller rainfall index quadrants to give each farm an
accurate assessment;
1.2.66. Specialty crop insurance products being made available to
commodity specific producers who request coverage provided
a survey be conducted of the relevant industry;
1.2.67. A study on an insurance premium discount for producers who
use new technologies that protect against yield loss;
1.2.68. Payment of crop insurance claims for crop losses caused
when authorities intentionally breach a levee or open a federal
control structure;
1.2.69. The continuing availability of crop insurance for tobacco
including fields with an acceptable crop rotation management
plan;
1.2.70. Fields used for crop rotation, including forage crops, being
exempt from the sodbuster regulation for crop insurance;
1.2.71. Maintaining up-to-date federal rate maps to reflect flood and
other risks as accurately as possible;
1.2.72. Development of a crop revenue policy for limited irrigated
crops;
1.2.73. A re-evaluation of irrigated T-yields to ensure they are more in
line with water use;
1.2.74. Changing the tolerance for production yield for rice from one
pound per acre to one one-hundredweight (cwt) per acre;
1.2.75. A crop insurance program that covers a crop until the time of
the crop’s normal harvest time, and the policy includes provisions for abnormally late harvest due to adverse weather events;
1.2.76. The ability of all states to insure individual blocks of grape varieties;
1.2.77. The current legislatively approved farmer premium discount schedule;
1.2.78. Acres planted to cover crops managed to promote soil health be considered “fallow” for the following year’s crop including fall planted crops;
1.2.79. Creation of a stakeholder advisory committee within each RMA regional office. These committees should be composed of producers, Approved Insurance Providers (AIPs), agents, adjusters and regional agronomists to advise policy makers as to possible effect of procedure;
1.2.80. Maintaining a revenue-based policy with the opportunity to use the Harvest Price Option;
1.2.81. Continuation of the Whole Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) as a pilot program. Premiums should be based on the amount of risk. Coverage should be based on a five-year Olympic average. The current $1 million eligibility cap for animals and animal products, as well as nursery and greenhouse production, should be increased. The minimum qualifying requirements for the 80 and 85 percent coverage level should be reduced from three to two commodities;
1.2.82. State-listed noxious weed control requirements be enforced on fields with prevented planting; and
1.2.83. Development of special crop insurance products to compensate farmers for wildlife damage.
1.3. We oppose:
1.3.1. The public release of crop insurance indemnity payments
made to individual producers;
1.3.2. Requiring irrigation after crop failure has occurred;
1.3.3. The double selling of tobacco pounds through the use of both
the open market and contracts when federal tobacco crop insurance claims are sought. The acreage for tobacco crops
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