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on which insurance is paid should be verified to be destroyed
and not allowed to be marketed;
1.3.4. Crop insurance that includes an automatic harvest deduction
rather than a calculation by a crop adjuster only for grape
producers;
1.3.5. RMA announcing special provision changes so late in the
season that it negatively affects producers who have already made plans and rental agreements for the next year's particular crop;
1.3.6. Caps or limits being applied to crop insurance premium assistance to producers;
1.3.7. Means testing and payment limitations for crop insurance; and
1.3.8. Farmers being charged a farm visit fee to verify that a cover
crop that includes a fruit and/or vegetable was not harvested
as a fruit or vegetable.
2. Disaster Programs
2.1. We support:
2.1.1. Programs for livestock and tree producers, which include the
Livestock Forage Program (LFP), the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP), the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP), the Tree Assistance Program (TAP), and the Emergency Haying and Grazing of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) authorities;
2.1.2. The creation of voluntary risk management products for contracted poultry growers to assist them financially during disease outbreaks or interruption in the supply of birds;
2.1.3. A federal flood insurance program for grain stored on farms;
2.1.4. Disaster assistance for catastrophic natural disasters that:
2.1.4.1. Provides assistance for quantity and quality losses; 2.1.4.2. Covers all affected segments of agriculture;
2.1.4.3. Does not exclude declared types of natural disasters; 2.1.4.4. Provides timely delivery of assistance; and
2.1.4.5. Requires recipients to have crop insurance or NAP coverage, if it is available for their commodity;
2.1.5. Not penalizing producers who have purchased higher levels of crop insurance;
2.1.6. The availability of disaster assistance payments for producers who are victims of bioterrorism;
2.1.7. Disaster payment determinations based on best available data;
2.1.8. Allocation of disaster assistance by Congress without regard to existing farm program payments;
2.1.9. The ability of a producer to receive disaster assistance in the year of the disaster even if harvest is scheduled for the following year;
2.1.10. Disaster coverage for crop losses due to governmental restrictions or pest infestations;
2.1.11. USDA Emergency Loan interest rates being set lower than other USDA loan rates;
2.1.12. Producers who have paid the maximum NAP fee of $750.00 for three specified crops in a county being considered in compliance for disaster-related programs and the statement "or any other" crop being included in the policy. The NAP premium should be pro-rated to reflect appropriate percentages of crop ownership as stated in the rental agreement;
2.1.13. Efforts to streamline the FSA NAP insurance program record keeping requirements for multi-crop farms;
2.1.14. Acres planted for conservation programs designed to promote soil health that are destroyed by the crop insurance deadline should be considered "fallow" for the following year's crop, including fall planted crops;
2.1.15. NAP coverage for all instances of double crops be permitted unless a certified crop advisor determines the practice is not a Best Management Practice; and
2.1.16. Increased funding for livestock disaster assistance programs, such as ELAP. We recommend that poultry disaster assistance be authorized for growers, including contract growers, and implemented by USDA to cover Avian Flu