Release Notes 6.080.0

RMA updated the Pre-Acceptance Inspection Report (PAIR) for Florida (FL) Citrus Fruit in the December 21st publication of the 2018 Document and Supplemental Standards Handbook (DSSH). The updates are effective for policies for the 2018 and succeeding Crop Years with crops that have a contract change date of November 30, 2017 or later. While researching the DSSH change, it was determined that the System did not previously have the FL Citrus Fruit PAIR:

RMA updated the Producer's Pre-Acceptance Worksheet (PAW) for Florida (FL) Citrus Fruit in the 2018 Document and Supplemental Standards Handbook (DSSH). So, the PAW for Florida Citrus was updated to meet the new form standards—this includes the addition of several fields.

Beginning with the 2018 RY, RMA has added a new procedure that allows growers to select to exclude acreage damaged by an unavoidable uninsured fire (UUF) and/or a third party. When a grower makes this election, the Acreage Report must be updated to indicate what acreage was damaged by an unavoidable uninsured fire (UUF) and/or a third party.

NOTE: This requirement is waived for 2017 UUF/Third Party Damage acreage. RMA has added a new Acreage Type of "K – Unavoidable Uninsured Fire or Third Party Damage" to the Acreage Type ICE Table (ICE D00142) to account for reporting of UUF/Third Party Damage acreage. TFS #75004 in Release 6.040 added a description to the new Acreage Type of "K" that displays on the detail line, detail line drawer, and CLU grid.

With this ticket, the following changes were made:

WFRP: The 2018 Whole-Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) Handbook added a new form for WFRP. The new Whole-Farm Revenue Protection Expected Value and Yield Documentation Worksheet form was added to the MPCI policy Print tab and the Batch Printing tool (Tools > Batch Printing) for the 2018+ RYs. This form has a QR code, can be used in the Batch Scanning functionality as a permanent form with an Attachment Type of "WFRP Exp Value & Yld Wksht", has 3 report styles (Blank, Pre-head for Agency Only, and Pre-head with Insured and Agency info), and an updated version of "01-2018".

eSign: The 848 High Risk Alternate Coverage Endorsement Application has been modified and enabled for use within the eSign Wizard. For this form, the eSign wizard will:

eSign: The NPCS New Producer Certification Statement has been modified and enabled for use within the eSign Wizard. For this form, the eSign wizard will:

ICE: ProAg has introduced enhancements to the Increased Coverage Election product. This ticket updated the Confirmation of Coverage and Schedule of Insurance forms in order to accommodate the product enhancements. The changes will apply to ICE products for 2018 going forward. These changes are applicable to all places the COC and SOI prints on the UI.

The following updates will be implemented on the ICE Confirmation of Coverage form:

The following updates will be implemented on the ICE Schedule of Insurance form:

In certain counties, TA is valid for a specific Practice/Type for a crop (e.g., valid for IRR but not NonIRR), but the Estimated Yields for TA were being populated on the APH Analysis Worksheet for the invalid Practice/Type. The APH Analysis Worksheet for TA was updated so that when it is not applicable for a Practice/Type, the TA Estimated Yields will no longer calculate and print.

MPowerD: In testing MPowerD (MPD), it was discovered that the detail lines would only print correctly if the corresponding MPCI policy had the detail line set up. This ticket will fix this issue, allowing the MPowerD COC to print all detail lines on the MPD policy.

RMA updated the Grove Producer's Pre-Acceptance Worksheet (PAW) for Florida (FL) Fruit Tree in the 2018 FL Fruit Tree Handbook. These changes are for all years:

RPowerD: A Confirmation of Coverage form was created to accommodate the new RPowerD product introduced in 2018. The base Watts Confirmation of Coverage form was updated to accommodate RPowerD information and data. The form will be available to print from the Print Forms tab within an individual RPowerD policy, via the Batch Reporting tool, and from the Print Private Product Blank Forms menu.

RPowerD: A Schedule of Insurance form was created to accommodate the new RPowerD product introduced in 2018. The base Watts Schedule of Insurance form was updated to accommodate RPowerD information and data. Data will correspond with the user interface (UI) (e.g., if the Market Price is "No" on the UI, it will display as "No" on the form). The form will be available to print from the following locations:

While testing 6.075, it was found that the "+" sign was not printing on the WFRP Schedule of Insurance (SOI) when the coverage was in a "Pending" or "Incomplete" status to signify that the premium/liabilities are an estimate only. The WFRP SOI was updated to print the "+" sign when a coverage is in a "Pending" or "Incomplete" status.

Production Hail: A request was made to add the Unit Structure to the Application form for all Production Hail products. This enhancement was a base change for all Crop Years and for Production Plan products only. This change will affect the Application in all printing areas. The following updates were implemented on the Production Hail Application form:

NOTE: TFS #78617 will make the same enhancement to the Production Plan Confirmation of Coverage.

An ICE 2014 update was made by RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following table has been updated for 2014:

An ICE 2015 update was made by RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following table has been updated for 2015:

An ICE 2018 update was made by RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following tables have been updated for 2018:

A 2018 ADM update was made by RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following table has been updated for 2018:

An ICE 2014 update was made by RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following tables have been updated for 2014:

An ICE 2015 update was made by RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following tables have been updated for 2015:

An ICE 2016 update was made by RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following table has been updated for 2016:

An ICE 2016 update was made by RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following tables have been updated for 2016:

An ICE 2017 update was made by RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following table has been updated for 2017:

An ICE 2017 update was made by RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following tables have been updated for 2017:

Policy: A request was made to force the user to select the Agent Name on the Add New Policy page if there is more than one agent licensed and appointed in the policy state for that agency. Previously, the System defaulted to the first agent in the dropdown, which could easily be overlooked by the processor.

This request involves adding a "--Select--" option to the top of the dropdown list as the default option if there is more than one name pulled into the list. If there is only one agent, the System defaults that agent name. The ticket also required the addition of a new validation at Save, Save & Add, and Save & Exit to be returned if the user fails to select an agent name.

NOTE: TFS #84701 has been set up to address an issue with inactive agents showing in the Agent dropdown. That ticket will be handled in a later release.

Malt Barley: RMA issued PM-17-038 around changes to the Malt Barley Endorsement (ME option) for the 2018+ RYs. One of the changes made to the policy and handbook was to clarify that the weighted average price for ME is to be determined using planted and insurable acres only. In addition, any non-contracted acres should be determined as total insurable planted acres minus contracted acres.

While the System is correctly not including prevented plant (PP) acres, it was including uninsurable (UI) acres in the Malt Barley Worksheet, Malt Barley Price Worksheet, weighted average price calculation, and non-contracted acres calculation. This ticket updated the following for Malt Barley:

RMA issued PM-17-038 around changes to the Malt Barley Endorsement (ME option) for the 2018+ RYs. One of the changes called out is that if an insured has contracts for both organic and conventional Malting Barley, all projected price calculations as well as contract and non-contract acreage calculations must be completed separately with organic acreage using organic contracts and conventional acreage using the conventional contracts.

This ticket updated the Malt Barley Worksheet, Malt Barley Price Worksheet, weighted average price calculation, and non-contracted acres calculation to consider organic and conventional detail lines separately if both organic and conventional contracts exist. Users must select the appropriate practice when adding the Malt contract for the System to function correctly.

PHTS: An issue was reported where PHTS import logic was importing detail lines to the Margin Protection coverage when there was an MPCI Plan of 090, 01, 02, or 03 for the same State/County/Crop. PHTS import logic has been changed to correctly link premium lines (P11) imported to policy coverages.

Yield Cup: In the 6.075 release with TFS #82114, the APH logic was updated to account for RMA's conversion of the Yield Cup procedures to the new Yield Cup "YC" option in 2018 for crops with an 11/30 or later Filing Date and for all crops in 2019. As part of these Yield Cup changes, the Master Yield (MY) and Personal T-Yield (PTY) calculations were impacted. For Master Yields, the new Yield Cup procedures state that the YC option and applicable procedures apply to the MY summary unit only, if applicable, and not the underlying non-summary units. For Personal T-Yields (PTY) the new Yield Cup procedures state that the "YC" option does not apply to the summary PTY unit but can apply to any non-summary units, regardless of if a PTY applies in the current or previous years.

With this ticket, the MY and PTY functionality was updated to account for Yield Cup. The System will allow the Yield Cup option to be applied to MY summary units only. In addition, the System will allow Yield Cup to be applied to PTY non-summary units only. The auto-created MY logic was updated to determine and apply a prior year yield if an MY existed in the prior year for the same Crop/Type/Practice/T-Yield Map Area. If an MY exists in the prior year, the System will set the prior year yield on the current MY to the approved yield from the prior year MY.

NOTE: TFS #84524 will update auto-created MY Summary units to allow prior year yield to be keyed by the user and add the YC opt out flag.

Yield Cup: During internal testing of the new YC (Yield Cup option) functionality, a bug with the APH calculation was identified. When the Yield Cup was equal to the TA average, the System was applying the Yield Cup and YC option instead of the TA average. The Yield Cup should only apply when it is greater than the TA average; if the two values are equal, and that is the highest yield, then the TA average applies.

The APH calculation has been updated to use the TA average as the approved yield when the TA average and Yield Cup values are the highest yields calculated and the TA average is equal to the Yield Cup value.

Yield Cup: During internal testing of the new YC (Yield Cup option) functionality, a bug with the APH calculation was identified. The System was not consistently applying the Yield Cup, if it was applicable and was the highest yield on the policy, when TA also existed on the APH.

The APH calculation has been updated to use the Yield Cup if it is the highest yield available and the grower has not opted out of using the Yield Cup.

Yield Cup: During internal testing of the new YC (Yield Cup option) functionality, a bug with the Yield Limitation flag was identified. When a Cup was initially applied to the APH and the user then updated the APH so that the Yield Cup no longer applied, the System was retaining the Yield Limitation code of "16". This bug has been resolved. This System will no longer retain the Yield Limitation code of "16" if the Yield Cup no longer applies.

APH: A bug was introduced as part of Perennial changes made in the 6.055 release in December. This bug impacted the correct yield indicator from persisting to the APH on save. Yield indicators are required PASS elements in certain situations. The following is logic around restoration of the correct yield indicator on the APH record:

Questions about the yield indicator codes and what they mean may be answered by reviewing the RMA ICE Table D00033 at the following website: https://www.rma.usda.gov/ftp/References/insurance_control_elements/PASS/2018/2018_D00033_IceYieldIndicator_YTD.txt.

An additional resource is Exhibit P15_5 of the M13 manual at the following website: https://www.rma.usda.gov/ftp/Publications/M13_Handbook/2018/approved/P15_5_YIELD_INDICATOR_CODE_EXHIBIT.PDF

Peanuts: Back in 2015, RMA started allowing Peanuts insured under Yield Protection (Plan Code 01) only to utilize the Contract Price Addendum (CP option) and a Weighted Average Price. This functionality was implemented for Plan 01 Peanuts back in 2015 and includes the following functionality: allowing the CP option to be applied to the coverage, allowing contracts to be created for Peanuts with Plan 01 and the CP option selected, detail line functionality to apply contracts and the CP option to the detail line, creation of contact and non-contract acreage detail lines in the database, calculation of pounds remaining on a contract, and calculation of a weighted average price.

Beginning in the 2018 RY, RMA is expanding the CP option and Weighted Average Price to Plans 02 and 03 Peanuts. Given this, with this ticket, existing functionality was expanded for Plan 01 Peanuts with the CP option applied to also apply to Plans 02 and 03 Peanuts. The System functionality for Peanut contracts and Weighted Average Price have been updated to also include Plans 02 and 03. This includes the following functionality:

Note on Calculating Weighted Average Prices: Peanut prices have not yet been released. When calculating a Weighted Average Price, if a detail line has more Total Pounds than available Contract Pounds, the System creates a non-contract line. The Projected Price will apply to the non-contract line in the Weighted Average Price calculation. Until the prices for Peanuts are released, the System will use "$0.00" as the price for the non-contract line. A testing-only ticket, TFS #84909, has been set up to re-test the Weighted Average Price calculation once Peanut prices are released.

Policies: An issue was found when setting up new coverages for a grower. SBIs were selected at the bottom of the Add Coverage page; however, at save, they did not persist to the Grower tab and were not attached to the new policy. The issue was identified and has been corrected, and SBIs are now getting attached at save of new coverages/policies.

Yield Cup: Beginning in 2018, for crops with a filing date of 11/30 or later and in 2019 for all crops, RMA has converted the Yield Cup procedures to a new "YC" option code. Prior to the changes announced for 2018, a Yield Cup was automatically applied to an APH when the Approved Yield declined more than 10% from the Prior Year Yield. A 5% premium surcharge applied when this cup procedure was utilized.

Under the new "YC" option code, the grower will need to elect the option on the coverage and then, if the yield calculated using the cup is higher than any other methods, including YE, YA, and TA, the Approved Yield will be calculated using the cup. Under this new procedure, RMA has also changed the rating methodology for Yield Cup. The 5% premium surcharge no longer applies; instead, an Adjusted Yield will be calculated and used to determine an effective Coverage Level that is used to determine the premium rate. This rating logic is similar to that used for YE and TA.

With this ticket, the rating calculator was updated to apply the new rating logic for YC.

Yield Cup: In the 6.075 release, functionality was implemented for the new Yield Cup option. During internal testing, a bug with the estimated standard procedure Approved Yield was identified. This value is calculated by the TA/YE/YC Recalc Utility and displays in the comparison popup on the APH. Prior to the changes to Yield Cup for 2018, the standard procedure Approved Yield was the higher of the Average Yield, Adjusted Yield (if YA is on the coverage), Yield Floor, and Yield Cup. For 2018+ crops with an 11/30 or later filing date and for all 2019+ crops, Yield Cup is now the YC option. Since YC is now an option, it should no longer be considered in the estimated standard procedure Approved Yield value calculated by the TA/YE/YC Recalc Utility. With this ticket, the TA/YE/YC Recalc Utility was updated to no longer consider the Yield Cup as part of the calculation of the estimated standard procedure Approved Yield.

Yield Cup: With TFS #82114, the new YC APH calculations were implemented. A bug was found where the old cup logic was not applying to an APH database when it should have. A change has been made to crops with a CCD prior to 11/30 where, if YA/Yield Floor is not applicable and the Cup is a valid Approved Yield, the cup will be applied.

Fast Edit AR & PR: During internal testing, an issue was found with popup windows not re-centering when resizing the main window. The user who found the issue was viewing the Malt Barley worksheet in the Fast Edit AR. They had their window sized down and when they expanded the window to the full size, the Malt Worksheet did not re-center as expected. The System has been updated so that, when changing the size of the main window, the popup automatically re-sizes as well.

Master Yields: Tickets in the 6.080 release involve Master Yields that will require recalculation post deployment. Recalculation will involve removing and re-applying the Master Yield already put into place before full Yield Cup calculations were implemented.

The query attached to this ticket contains a query of all Master Yields that are currently in place for the 2018 RY for the AIP. It is this scope of policies that will need to be recalculated to accurately apply the Yield Cup option functionality.

Peanuts: When adding Peanut contracts, the user must select "Add New Contract" from the Utilities tab. When entering contract information, one of the dropdowns that populates is the Warehouse Code. The information was displaying in this dropdown by code number rather than in an alpha order. With this ticket, the dropdown was updated to display the Warehouse options in alpha code order rather than numerical for easier selection by the agent user.

Policies: An issue was found where it was taking the user two saves in order for the "Is Primary County" selection to persist at save of a new coverage. The user would have to save the coverage the initial time, go back in and edit the coverage to add the designation again, and then, save in order for the System to retain it. The issue causing the problem was identified and corrected so the Primary County designation is now retaining at first save.

The default Crop Year for Private Product policies, reports, etc. has been updated from 2017 to 2018. This change applies to adding new Private Product policies, reports, etc.

The default Crop Year for Private Product policies, reports, etc. has been updated from 2017 to 2018. This change applies to adding new Private Product policies, reports, etc.

The default Crop Year for Private Product policies, reports, etc. has been updated from 2017 to 2018. This change applies to adding new Private Product policies, reports, etc.

ICE: For the 2018+ RYs, the Increased Coverage Election (ICE) product was updated in the System to now have the user select the policy option (i.e., AY, BY, BR, CY, or CR) at the time the sales record is set up. The policy page will then display the fields that are applicable to the ICE option. Any field not necessary for the Increased Coverage Election option will display with an "NA" in the field.

NOTE: You may not have a mix and match of ICE Policy options on a Private Product policy. If the user has multiple crops/counties with varying ICE options, they will need to write multiple ICE policies to cover each option.

ICE: In 2018, Pro Ag is introducing additional coverage options for their traditional ICE policy. The updates to the policy will be considered ICE Plus, and there will be 4 additional policy options for ICE (BR, BY, CR, and CY) that will add a coverage band to the policy. The traditional ICE policy format will now be noted as the AY option.

The Increased Coverage Election (ICE) was updated to now have the user select the policy option (i.e., AY, BY, BR, CY, or CR) at the time the sales record is set up. The policy page will then display the fields that are applicable to the ICE option. Any field not necessary for the Increased Coverage Election option will display with an "NA" in the field. The user will then submit coverage, and the policy will display the Increased Coverage Election option that was selected on the policy page. Upon mark complete/submittal of the acreage report on the associated MPCI policy/quote, the acres will then be imported and premium will be calculated on the ICE policies.

NOTE: You may not have a mix and match of ICE policy options on a Private Product policy. If the user has multiple crops/counties with varying ICE options, they will need to write multiple ICE policies to cover each option.

ICE: An enhancement was done to the Private Product Policy Register (Reports > Private Product Reporting > Policy Register) for the product of Increased Coverage Election for the year 2018. When a user selects the Product Line to be "Increased Coverage Election" in the 2018+ RYs, a new dropdown, ICE Policy Option, will display. In the dropdown, the user will have the option to select to print certain Increased Coverage Elections: AY, BY, BR, CY, and CR.