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A - Acre
AACI - American Association of Crop Insurers
ABA - Abandoned
ACT - The Federal Crop Insurance Act
ADB - Actuarial Document Browser
ADM - Actuarial Document Master
AGAR - Agriculture Acquisition Regulation
AGR - Adjusted Gross Revenue
AI - Amount of Insurance
AIP - Approved Insurance Provider
A/R - Acreage Report
APH - Actual Production History
ARD - Acreage Reporting Date
ARPA - Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000
ASG - Actuarial Standards Guide
ATOC - Actuarial Table of Contents

BMP - Best Management Practice
BOB - Book of Business
BP - Base Period
BPs - Basic Provisions
BU - Bushel or Basic Unit

C&F - Canning and Freezing
C&P - Canning and Processing
CAT - Catastrophic Risk Protection
CBOT - Chicago Board of Trade
CCC - Commodity Credit Corporation
CCD - Contract Change Date
CD - Cancellation Date
CEO - Coverage Enhancement Option
CFO - Compliance Field Offices
CIH - Crop Insurance Handbook
CO - Common Option
COFO - Commercially Objectionable Foreign Odor
CP - Common Policy or Crop Provisions
CPDC - Crop Program Development Cycle
CR - Civil Rights
CRC - Crop Revenue Coverage
CRP -Conservation Reserve Program
CTNS - Cartons
CY - Calendar Year or Crop Year
CWT - Hundredweight
CWW - Cold Wet Weather

DAP - Disaster Assistance Program
DAS - Data Acceptance System
DC - Double Crop
DF - Discount Factor
DO - Dollar Amount of Insurance
DP - Dollar Plan
DM - Dry Matter

EA - Ear (corn)
EAF - Experience Adjustment Factor
EEO - Equal Employment Opportunity
EIN - Employer's Identification Number
EU - Enterprise Unit
FAC - Following Another Crop
FAD - Final Agency Determination
FCIC - Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
FCI-35 - Coverage and Rate Table
FD - Fixed Dollar
FIE - Failure of Irrigation Equipment
FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standards
FIS - Failure of Irrigation Supply
FL - Final Loss - GRP/GRIP crops
FM - Foreign Material
FOIA - Freedom of Information Act
FPD - Final Payment Date
FSN - Farm Serial Number
FR MKT - Fresh Market
FSRIA - Farm Security & Rural Investment Act of 2002

GFP - Good Farming Practice
GP - General Policy
GRIP - Group Risk Income Protection
GRP - Group Risk Plan
GUAR - Guarantee
GYC - Grower Yield Certification
GZ - Graze or grazed

H - Harvested
HFE - Hail and Fire Exclusion
HEL - Highly Erodible Land
HR - High Risk Land Exclusion
HG - Harvested gleaned acreage
I - Irrigated
ICH - Insufficient Chilling Hours
IDIQ - Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity
IIP - Indexed Income Protection
IP - Income Protection
IPD - Initial Planting Date
ITS - Ineligible Tracking System
JU - Juice
KCBOT - Kansas City Board of Trade

LAF - Liability Adjustment Factor
LAM - Loss Adjustment Manual
LASH - Loss Adjustment Standards Handbook

LGM - Livestock Gross Margin
LIAB - Liability
LPA - Local Producing Area
LPP - Late Planting Period
LR - Loss Ratio
LRP - Livestock Risk Protection

MIC - Multiple Interest Contract
MIF - Misreported Information Factor
MKT - Market
MP - Market Price
MPCI - Multiple Peril Crop Insurance

NBP - Net Book Premium
NCIS - National Crop Insurance Services
NHEL - Not Highly Erodible Land
NI - Non-Irrigated
NAP - Non-Insured Assistance Program
NFAC - Not Following Another Crop
NHEL - Not Highly Erodible Land
NPDH - New Program Development Handbook
NPS - No Practice Specified
NR - Not Replanted
NS - Nonsubtantive
NW - Nonwetland

ODC - Other Direct Costs
OU - Optional Units
PAF - Premium Adjustment Factor
PAR - Paragraph
PB - Bypassed acreage
PE - Price Election
PEF - Price Election Factor
PF - Pack Factor
PGE - Portland Grain Exchange
PHTS - Policyholder Tracking System
PIK - Payment in Kind
PP - Prevented Planting
PPB - Parts Per Billion
PPM - Parts Per Million
PPP - Prevented Planting Period
PRD - Production Reporting Date
PREM - Premium
PRF - Pasture, Rangeland and Forage
PRP - Premium Reduction Plan
PTC - Production To Count
P/T/V - Practice, Type, Variety
PW - Production Worksheet

QAF - Quality Adjustment Factor
QC - Quality Control

RC - Rate Class Option
RA - Revenue Assurance
RAS - Reinsurance Accounting System
RIV - Reduction In Value
RMA - Risk Management Agency
RND - Round
RO - Regional Office
RY - Reinsurance Year
RYAF - Reference Year Adjustment Factor
RS - Replanted via Direct Seeding
RT - Replanted with Transplants

SBI - Substantial Beneficial Interest
SC - Summary of Changes
SCD - Sales Closing Date
SCP - Simplified Claims Processing
SD - Seed
SEC - Section
SH - Shelled
SOB - Summary Of Business
SPOI - Special Provisions of Insurance
SR - Self-Certified Replant Claims
SRA - Standard Reinsurance Agreement
SSN - Social Security Number
SU - Solely Uninsured
TD - Termination Date or Tray Dried (raisins)
TDO - Plan code for Tree Based Dollar Amount of Insurance
TGP - Tobacco Guaranteed Production
TIN - Tax Identification Number
TN - Ton
TP - Timely Planted
TQ - Tobacco, quota plan

UB - Bypassed Acreage Due to Insured Cause
UH - Un-Harvested
UNR - Ultra Narrow Row
UO - Unit Option
USWA - U.S. Warehouse Act

WA - Written Agreement
WC - Without Weed Control
WCC - With Cover Crop
WFP - With Frost Protection
W/OFP - Without Frost Protection
W/OCC - Without Cover Crop
WOC - Without Consent
WP - Winter Planted
WU - Whole Farm Unit

XX - No Option Specified
YA - Yield Adjustment Election
YDO - Yield-based Dollar Amount of Insurance
YLD - Yield

For more information, contact Bill (William) Klein.


Last Modified: 01/05/2009
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