A number of issues have arisen regarding the administration of the nursery crop insurance program for the 1999 and 2000 crop years. This bulletin is issued to provide clarification and to implement changes necessary to address these concerns. The water supply and equipment needed to meet the nursery policy irrigation requirements are based on the availability of an adequate water supply and facilities with which the insured nursery plants can be irrigated at times and in quantities sufficient to prevent plant damage due to a lack of water. The source of water may be on-site or may be piped or trucked to the nursery for application.
Some plants require much more frequent application of water as opposed to others.
For example, some field grown plants require more frequent irrigation than other field grown plants depending on various factors. Therefore, practice, type, age of the plant, and other conditions will be considered in determining if the insured meets or has met the irrigation requirements of the policy to establish insurability. Since growers may have relied on this software in valuing their inventories, the Risk Management Agency will accept claims using prices from this software. The only condition is that all of the nursery plants must be priced for loss purposes, including salvage value determinations, using the same method. See items 12 and 13, under Changes and Clarifications for 2000, for applicable procedure for written agreements and Plant Inventory Value Report revisions that also apply to crop year 1999.