INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM: R&D-96-064
     
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:  Farm Service Agency Established Yields for Crop Year 1997 
     
     
On October 1, 1996, the Farm Service Agency (FSA) issued Catastrophic Risk 
Management 1-RM (Revision 1) Amendment 7 that informed local FSA offices to 
provide yields for crop insurance purposes ONLY on the FSA 423 for the 1997 
crop year.  If a yield is requested either by the producer or the insurance 
company for a producer that is planting a program crop for the first time, 
the local FSA office will establish a yield to be used for crop insurance 
purposes only.  This yield will be documented on a letter signed by the 
County Executive Director.  A copy will be provided to the producer/insurance 
company making the request. 

For your information, Catastrophic Risk Management 1-RM (Revision 1) 
Amendment 7 is attached.  See pages 2-59 and 2-60.
     
Attachment - Original copy and attachment will be mailed.