INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM: R&D-97-036

TO:       All Reinsured Companies
          All Risk Management Field Offices
          FSA Headquarters, Program Delivery and Field Operations

FROM:     Tim B. Witt
          Deputy Administrator

SUBJECT:  Revenue Assurance - Loss Adjustment Supplemental Handbook

BACKGROUND:

The Iowa Farm Bureau has developed a Revenue Assurance Coverage Loss 
Adjustment Supplemental Handbook.  This handbook contains procedures for 
Revenue Assurance (RA) corn and soybeans that are unique to RA and provides 
instructions for using existing Production Worksheets and Proof of Loss 
forms to document RA claim calculations.  All production determinations for 
RA corn and soybeans are identical to traditional multiple peril crop
insurance; therefore, existing loss adjustment manuals are applicable to RA.  
However, RA provisions regarding whole farm and enterprise units and 
provisions requiring the conversion of production information into dollar 
values resulted in Iowa Farm Bureau developing supplemental loss instructions.

ACTION:

In conjunction with the Iowa Farm Bureau, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) 
is providing the RA Loss Adjustment Supplemental Handbook for corn and 
soybeans to all insurance providers.  Insurance providers may find the RA 
Loss Adjustment Supplemental Handbook helpful and can obtain a copy from the 
Reporting Organization (RO) Server in the "/Revenue_Assurance" directory 
as "97RABOOK.ZIP."
 
If you have any questions related to the RO Server, please contact Reid 
Earls at (816) 926-6368.  If you have any questions related to the content 
of the handbook, please contact the Product Development Division at 
(816) 926-7387.

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