INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM: R&D-96-034.1

TO:               All Reinsured Companies
                  All Risk Management Field Offices
                  FSA Headquarters, Program Delivery & Field Operations
                  
FROM:             Tim B. Witt
                  Director
                  Research and Development Division

SUBJECT:          Income Protection - Wheat Pilot Program Refiled Actuarial
                  Materials

BACKGROUND:

Attached are the 1997 approved FCI-35's and Special Provisions of Insurance
for the Income Protection - Wheat pilot program.  These are refiled materials
that added program dates for winter and spring wheat types and re-entered the
county yield spans.  

ACTION:

The Income Protection - Wheat actuarial is available electronically via the
Reporting Organization (RO) server.  This release includes the FCI-35 Coverage
and Rate Tables, Special Provisions of Insurance and for your convenience the
Income Protection - Wheat Crop Provisions.

If you have any questions about this pilot program, please contact Vondie
O'Conner at (816)-926-6343 or by fax at (816)-926-7343.

Attachments - will follow with hard copy