INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM: R&D-97-007
     
TO:      All Reinsured Companies
         All Risk Management Field Offices
         FSA Headquarters, Program Delivery & Field Operations -
         Information Only
              
FROM:    Tim B. Witt               /S/ TIM B.  WITT   02/03/97
         Acting Deputy Administrator 
              
SUBJECT: Income Protection--1997 Program Filing for Spring Seeded Crops
     
BACKGROUND:
     
The Board of Directors of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) has 
approved the Income Protection - grain sorghum and soybean pilot program 
plans of insurance for the 1997 crop year.  Grain sorghum will be available 
in selected Texas counties and soybeans will be available in selected 
counties in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa.  

The Income Protection - corn, cotton, and spring wheat pilot program materials 
have been updated for the 1997 crop year.  
     
ACTION:
     
The 1997 Income Protection - corn, cotton, grain sorghum, wheat, and soybean 
actuarials are available electronically via the Reporting Organization (RO) 
server.  This release includes the FCI-35 Coverage and Rate Tables, Income 
Protection - corn, cotton, grain sorghum, and soybean Crop Provisions, 
Special Provisions of Insurance, Acknowledgment of Differences, a Premium 
Calculation Worksheet, a Yield Calculation Worksheet, and APH Procedure 
Comparison. 
     
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.
     
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