Farmers with crop insurance who claimed prevent plant for 2019 will automatically get a “top-up” payment via the disaster aid package approved this year by Congress. Payments will be made by Approved Insurance Providers (AIPs).
The announcement from USDA clears up a question of whether the payments would be made via crop insurance or would come from the Farm Service Agency (FSA). Producers with Yield Protection and Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion will receive a 10% top-up payment while those with Revenue Protection policies will get a 15% payment.
Initial payments will be made in mid-October with additional payments the middle of each month after that as more prevent plant claims are processed. There were crop insurance indemnity claims on an estimated 19.6 million acres this year.
The top-up payments are separate from disaster payments via the Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+).
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