INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM:  R&D-96-017


TO:      All Reinsured Companies
         All Risk Management Field Offices
  
FROM:    Tim B. Witt   /s/ Vondie O'Conner (for)
         Director
         Research and Development Division

SUBJECT: Insurability of Certain Varieties High-Oil Corn


ISSUE:

Additional questions have been raised regarding the insurability of certain 
varieties of high-oil corn.

ACTION:

Varieties of corn containing predominantly mixtures of high yielding yellow 
dent female plants with high-oil male pollinators (e.g., 90 percent female 
plants and 10 percent male pollinators) are insurable for the 1996 crop year 
without a written agreement.   Therefore, for the 1996 crop year such 
varieties are insurable under the Multiple Peril Crop Insurance Coarse Grains 
Crop Provisions and the Crop Revenue Coverage (CRC) Insurance Program.