Welcome

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Prevented Planting (PP)

Request for Information

Listening Session

USDA Risk Management Agency

Materials Created June 2023

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Welcome

Background Information: Request for Information (RFI)

Background Information: Prevented Planting (PP)

Comments

Agenda
Background: Request for Information

• Requesting information on 

prevented planting topics including, 

but not limited to:

• Prevented planting payment 

calculations

• Harvest Price 

• Contract Crops

• “1 in 4” rule 

• 10 percent additional coverage 

option 

• General comments

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Published May 23, 2023

• Comments on the Prevented 

Planting Provisions of the 

Common Crop Insurance Policy, 

Basic Provisions
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Written Comments

www.regulations.gov

Through close of business 

September 1, 2023

Oral Comments

In-person Listening Sessions; 

and/or Virtual Listening 

Sessions

All comments will be posted without change and will be 

publicly available on www.regulations.gov.

Background: Request for Information
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City State Date

Virtual June 8

El Campo TX June 13

Tulelake CA June 27

Davis CA June 28

Pennsylvania Furnace PA July 11

Dubois IN July 11

Adrian MI July 12

Fort Collins CO August 2

Stuttgart AR August 3

Fargo ND August 8

Florence SC August 8

Sutherland IA August 9

Orangeburg SC August 9

Maricopa AZ August 22

Las Cruces NM August 24

Background: Request for Information
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Prevented Planting 

Coverage

Background: Prevented Planting

Covered Perils Eligibility
Prevented planting (PP) is the...

Failure to plant the insured crop by the final planting date designated in 

the actuarial documents for the insured crop in the county, or within any 

applicable late planting period, due to an insured cause of loss that is 

general to the surrounding area and that prevents other producers from 

planting acreage with similar characteristics. 

Failure to plant because of uninsured causes such as lack of proper 

equipment or labor to plant acreage, or use of a particular production 

method, is not considered prevented planting.

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Background: Prevented Planting
Prevented Planting Coverage

Prevented Planting Coverage = Insurance Guarantee of a Timely Planted Crop 

× Prevented Planting Coverage Factor

Example:

• A producer’s insurance guarantee* = $100 an acre

• Prevented Planting Coverage Factor for the crop = 60%

• $100 × 60% = $60 prevented planting payment per acre (60% of the 

guarantee)

• *Insurance guarantee = Approved yield × coverage level × projected price (or 

price election) 

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Prevented Planting Coverage

Prevented Planting Coverage Factors:

• Are specified in the actuarial documents;

• Vary by crop;

• Are designed to provide protection based on pre-planting costs; not crop 

replacement; and

• Are established by comparing fixed and variable costs (from available 

national and state crop budgets) to average insurance guarantees.

RMA reviews prevented planting coverage factors on a 6-year cycle.

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Prevented Planting Coverage

Additional Coverage Options

• Producers with additional coverage policies (not CAT coverage) may elect to 

purchase an additional 5% of prevented planting coverage, commonly referred 

to as “PP+5”.

• Prior to 2018, there was also a “PP+10” additional coverage option.

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Covered Perils

Any insured cause of loss (peril) that is listed in the Crop Provisions for the 

insured crop, provided the cause occurred during the prevented planting 

insurance period and the peril prevented the insured from planting the insured 

crop.

Common Examples:

• Failure of Irrigation Water Supply 

• Drought 

• Excess Moisture

• Flood

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Background: Prevented Planting
Background: Prevented Planting

• Barley 

• Buckwheat 

• Canola/Rapeseed 

• Corn 

• Cotton 

• Cottonseed 

• ELS Cotton 

• Dry Beans 

• Dry Peas 

• Flax 

• Grain Sorghum 

• Green Peas 

• Hybrid Seed Corn 

• Hybrid Popcorn Seed 

• Hybrid Sorghum Seed 

• Hybrid Sweet Corn Seed 

• Millet 

• Mustard 

• Oats 

• Onions 

• Peanuts 

• Popcorn 

• Potatoes, Central and 

Southern 

• Potatoes, Northern 

• Processing Beans 

• Rice 

• Rye 

• Safflowers 

• Silage 

• Sorghum 

• Soybeans 

• Sugar Beets 

• Sunflower Seed 

• Sweet Corn, Processing 

• Tobacco

• Triticale 

• Wheat

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Crops with Prevented Planting Coverage:
Eligibility

• The producer must have eligible acre history

• If no history, the producer must submit an intended acreage report

• Producer must provide proof they had inputs available to plant and 

produce the crop

• Acreage claimed must be at least 20 acres or 20% of the insured acres in 

the unit

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Background: Prevented Planting
Eligibility

• Acreage must meet the physically available for planting requirements:

• Be free of trees, rocky outcroppings, or other factors

• Not be enrolled in a USDA program that removes the acreage from crop 

production

• Not be planted to a perennial crop (trees, vines, etc.)

• Not have pasture, rangeland, or forage in place

• Meet the “1 in 4” Rule:

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Background: Prevented Planting
The “1 in 4” Rule

• The acreage must have been planted to a crop, insured, and harvested (or if 

not harvested, adjusted for claim purposes due to an insured cause of 

loss (other than a cause of loss related to flood, excess moisture, drought, or 

other cause of loss specified in the Special Provisions)) in at least one out of 

the previous four years.

• The insured is responsible to prove qualifications

• If land fails this rule, it must be met for two consecutive years to be deemed 

physically available for planting (and regain eligibility for prevented planting 

coverage)

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Background: Prevented Planting
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Background: Prevented Planting

We want to hear from YOU!
Comments

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• Request for Information - Published May 23, 2023

• Comments on the Prevented Planting Provisions of the Common Crop Insurance 

Policy, Basic Provisions

• Requesting information on prevented planting topics including, but not limited to:

• Prevented planting payment calculations

• Harvest Price 

• Contract Crops

• “1 in 4” rule 

• 10 percent additional coverage option 

• General comments
Comments

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RMA staff will be taking notes during the session.

Please keep comments to 5 minutes.

Listening Sessions are scheduled for 2 hours.

Please be respectful.

This is not a question-and-answer session and is not intended to address individual situations.
• We want to hear from you!

• Speakers are encouraged to also submit their comments in writing.

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Submit written comments

by September 1, 2023.

www.federalregister.gov

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Resources

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Contact Us!

Prevented Planting Team: 

rma.pp.lah@usda.gov

Learn More:

RMA Home Page: www.rma.usda.gov

Prevented Planting Web Page: 

www.rma.usda.gov/Topics/Prevented-Planting