Crop Insurance Acronyms

Crop Insurance Acronyms from RMA are listed below.

If you care about this, you are welcome.

Honestly, this stuff is what I work with everyday – and this is a bit of a blogging experiment, if you must know.

A&O – Administrative & Operating Expense

ACT – The Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1502 et seq.)

ADM – Actuarial Data Master

AFS – Actuarial Filing System

AIP – Approved Insurance Provider

APDD – Actuarial and Product Design Division

APH – Actual Production History (insureds records for developing coverage) 

ARD – Acreage Reporting Date 

ARPA – Agricultural Risk Protection Act (also known as the Crop Insurance Act of 2000) 

ARPI – Area Risk Protection Insurance 

BBL – Barrel (unit of measure) 

BIA – Bureau of Indian Affairs 

BU – Basic Unit (unit structure code) 

BU – Bushel (unit of measure) 

CAT – Catastrophic Risk Protection 

CCIP – Common Crop Insurance Policy Provisions 

CEO – Coverage Enhancement Option 

CIH – Crop Insurance Handbook 

CIMS – Comprehensive Information Management System 

CLU – Common Land Unit 

CO – RMA Compliance Office 

COB – Close of Business 

COI – Conflict of Interest 

CPA – Contract Price Addendum

CTN – Carton (unit of measure) 

CVT – Commodity Validation Table 

CWT – Hundred Weight (unit of measure) 

CY – Crop Year 

DAS – Data Acceptance System 

DOL – Dollar Amount (unit of measure) 

DQB – Data Quality Branch 

DY – Determined Yields 

eDAS – Electronic Data Acceptance System 

EFT – Electronic Funds Transfer 

EIN – Employee Identification Number 

EP – Enterprise Unit by Irrigation Practice (unit structure code) 

EU – Enterprise Unit (unit structure code) 

FCIC – Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (RMA) 

FIPS – Federal Information Processing Standards 

FODMB – Financial Oversight & Debt Management Branch 

FSA – Farm Service Agency 

FSN – Farm Serial Number 

FY – Fiscal Year (October 1st to September 30th) 

GSH – General Standards Handbook 

HR-ACE – High Risk Alternate Coverage Endorsement 

ICE – Insurance Control Elements 

ID – Identification

IRM – Information Resources Management 

IS – Insurance Services 

ITS – Ineligible Tracking System 

KCO – RMA Kansas City Office 

LAC – Loss Adjustment Contractor 

LAM – Loss Adjustment Manual 

LAN – Local Area Network 

LBS – Pounds (unit of measure)

LGM – Livestock Gross Margin 

LP – Coverage Level by Irrigation Practice (option code)

LRP – Livestock Risk Protection 

LRR – Late Reported Reduction 

LUG – Lug (unit of measure)

MPCI – Multiple Peril Crop Insurance 

MGA – Managing General Agency 

MP – Margin Protection 

MPHPO – Margin Protection with Harvest Price Option

MY – Master Yields 

NAD – National Appeals Division 

NASS – National Agricultural Statistics Service 

NCIS – National Crop Insurance Services 

NCS – Non-Standard Classification System 

ORM – Office of Risk Management 

OU – Optional Unit (unit structure code) 

PAAD – Policy Analysis & Accounting Division 

PASD – Product Administration and Standards Division 

PASS – Policy Acceptance and Storage System 

PHTS – Policyholder Tracking System 

PIC – Policy Issuing Company 

PM – RMA Product Management 

PRD – Production Reporting Date 

PRF – Pasture, Rangeland and Forage 

PSR – PASS Status Report 

RAS – Reinsurance Accounting System 

RAOB – Reinsurance Accounting and Operations Branch 

RAVB – Requirements, Analysis and Validation Branch 

RI – Rainfall Index 

RIRS – RMA Information Reporting System 

RMA – Risk Management Agency 

RME – Risk Management Education 

RO – RMA Regional Office 

ROE – Regional Office Exception 

RP – Revenue Protection 

RPHPE – Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion 

RY – Reinsurance Year 

SBI – Substantial Beneficial Interest 

SBOB – Summary Book of Business 

SCD – Sales Closing Date 

SCO – Supplemental Coverage Option 

SF – Standard Form (prefix to form numbers) 

SPOI – Special Provisions of Insurance 

SRA – Standard Reinsurance Agreement 

SSI – Successor In Interest 

SSN – Social Security Number 

STAX – Stacked Income Protection Plan 

T-Yield  – Transitional Yield 

TON – Ton Weight (unit of measure) 

UA – Optional Unit established by Written Unit Agreement (unit structure code) 

UCM – Underwriting Capacity Manager 

UD – Optional Unit established by Unit Division option (unit structure code) 

USDA – United States Department of Agriculture 

WA – Written Agreement 

WDC – RMA Washington, DC 

WFRP – Whole Farm Revenue Protection 

WU – Whole Farm Unit (unit structure code) 

WUA – Written Unit Agreement 

XML – Extensible Markup Language 

YP – Yield Protection