BULLETIN NO.:  MGR-95-031

TO:      All Reinsured Companies
         CFSA Headquarters, Program Delivery and Field Operations
         All Risk Management Field Offices

FROM:    Kenneth D. Ackerman
         Acting Deputy Administrator

SUBJECT: Acreage Reports Due July 15, 1995 and Acceptance of Applications for
         Subsequent Crops

BACKGROUND:

In response to excessive rainfall that prevented producers from meeting 
normal planting requirements in certain areas, Secretary Dan Glickman 
announced changes to 1995 prevented planting provisions.  The combined 
effects of the delay in planting and changes in the insurance program may 
cause insurance providers and farmers in the affected areas to be unable to 
meet acreage report filing deadlines.

ACTION:

The actions listed below may be taken for the following states:  Arkansas, 
Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, 
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, 
South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.

Insurance Providers may accept acreage reports through July 31, 1995, without 
performing crop inspections for all 1995 crop year spring planted crops with 
a July 15, 1995, acreage reporting date.

Insurance providers are authorized to utilize a register to record a 
producer's timely intent to secure CAT coverage for subsequent crops that may 
have been planted as a result of prevented planting of the originally insured 
intended crop.  The register must include the producer's name and signature, 
social security or tax identification number, and a list of the subsequent 
crops planted.  The producer must pay the $50 processing fee for each crop 
(if applicable) at the time the register is signed.  All applications for CAT 
coverage of subsequent crops must be documented on a timely signed 
application or register by July 15, 1995.