INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM:  R&D-96-021


TO:      All Reinsured Companies
         All Risk Management Field Offices
  
FROM:    Tim B. Witt
         Director
         Research and Development Division

SUBJECT: Insurability of Certain Varieties High-Protein Corn


ISSUE:

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) has received information that 
the policy terms making high-protein corn insurable only by written agreement 
under the multiple peril crop insurance policy (MPCI) and not insurable under 
the Crop Revenue Coverage pilot program should be changed.  Information 
provided to FCIC indicates that value-enhanced hybrids (i.e., higher levels 
of digestible protein and amino acids) are true single cross hybrids that 
pollinate and are grown under the same management practices as normal yellow 
dent corn.  This information and discussions with private industry 
representatives and University specialists indicate yield and risk are 
comparable to yellow dent field corn.   

ACTION:

Varieties of high-protein single cross hybrids are insurable for the 1996 
crop year without a written agreement.   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.