INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM: R&D-97-015
     
TO:       All Reinsured Companies
          All Risk Management Field Offices
          
FROM:     Tim B. Witt         /s/ Tim B. Witt    02/24/97
          Acting Deputy Administrator
     
SUBJECT:  Revenue Assurance - Clarification of Soybean Coverage for
          the 1997 Crop Year
     
BACKGROUND:
     
The Revenue Assurance (RA) insurance program was intended to insure all
soybeans that are properly incorporated into the soil at planting time
and that are planted for harvest as beans.  A non-conventional practice
(code 108) was provided on the RA County Actuarial Table in 30 Iowa
counties;  however, soybeans planted in this manner were intended to be
insurable in all Iowa counties.
     
ACTION:
     
Soybeans planted in a manner consistent with the non-conventional
practice are insurable in the other 69 Iowa counties.  These soybeans
will be coded under the applicable Irrigated practice (code 002) or Non
Intertillable Between Rows practice (code 086) provided on the RA County
Actuarial Table in those counties.  
     
To avoid refiling RA actuarial material, this informational memorandum
is being provided so all reinsured companies may properly notify their
agents and company personnel of this action.