INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM: R&D-97-016.1
     
TO:       All Reinsured Companies
          FSA Headquarters, Program Delivery and Field Operations
          All Risk Management Field Offices
     
FROM:     Tim B. Witt   /s/ TBW 03/04/97
          Acting Deputy Administrator
     
SUBJECT:  Correction to Yield Type Descriptors
     
     
BACKGROUND:
     
Bulletin R&D-97-016 provided additional 1997 and 1998 actual production
history (APH) and Master Yield instructions for carryover sugar beet and
dry bean insureds.  It indicated the use of an "X" yield type descriptor
when actual yields or summarized actual yields (from the prior year's
existing Master Yield) are replicated to a "new county" database.  Use of
the "X" yield type descriptor for this purpose will create data
processing problems as the "X" yield type descriptor currently identifies
80 percent "T" Yields for forage producers who grow feed or forage
primarily for on-farm use. 
     
ACTION:
     
Use an "R" yield type descriptor to identify each actual or summarized
actual yield (taken from the previous year's Master Yield Summary)
replicated to a new county's database.