February 27, 1998


INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM:  R&D-98-007

TO: All Reinsured Companies
    All Risk Management Field Offices

FROM:    Tim B. Witt/s/ R.E. Waggoner 
    Deputy Administrator

SUBJECT: New Crop Provisions for Crops with a June 30, 1998, or Earlier 
    Contract Change Date

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) placed on the Reporting Organization
(RO) Server the new crop provisions that will be effective for the 1999
and succeeding crop years (1998 crop year for raisins) for the following
crops with a June 30, 1998, or earlier contract change date: raisins,
forage seeding, fresh market pepper, fresh market sweet corn, fresh
market tomato (Dollar Plan), forage production, and sugarcane.  A brief
description of the significant changes has been included for each
document.  This information is also available on the RMA WebSite at:
ttp://www.act.fcic.usda.gov/actuarial/index.html under the FTP Download
directory.  Policies in PDF format are located in the MISC/PDFfiles
directory. Policies in WordPerfect format are located in the
MISC/WPDfiles directory.

The 1999 crop policies that have multiple contract change dates,
including a June 30, 1998, contract change date, and were previously
placed on the RO Server are not included in this release.  The Nursery
Crop Provisions that will be effective for the 1999 and succeeding crop
years are not included in this release since the new regulations
proposed for the 1999 crop year are in the regulatory process.  The
Nursery Crop Provisions and other new crop provisions with contract
change dates later than June 30,1998, that will be effective for the
1999 crop year, will be placed on the RO Server in the near future.

These policies are consistent with the Actuarial filing and must be
issued to all new and carryover insureds for the 1999 crop year (1998
crop year for raisins) at least 30 days prior to the cancellation
date.

If you have any questions, please contact David Clauser, Product
Development Division at (816)926-7730.