Causes of loss.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) To qualify for assistance, production losses or prevented planting must occur as a result of an eligible cause of loss during the coverage period. Not all causes of loss are eligible causes of loss for all crops or all commodities. (b) An eligible cause of loss is: (1) Damaging weather, including, but not limited to: (i) Drought; (ii) Hail; (iii) Excessive moisture; (iv) Freeze; (v) Tornado; (vi) Hurricane; (vii) Excessive wind; (viii) Lightning; (ix) Insufficient chill hours, but only for specific crops and locations for which FSA has determined in advance of a coverage period, based on FSA's review of sufficient scientific evidence that a requisite amount of chill hours is required for the crop to produce and a lack of chill hours is adverse to the crop's production without any regard to any management. In this context, “without regard to any management” means if a crop's inability to produce due to lack of chill hours can be mitigated by any managerial practices, application of chemical, or other management intervention, the lack of chill hours will not be included as an eligible cause of loss for the crop, In cases where FSA makes the decision to include insufficient chill hours as a cause of loss by itself for a crop and location, the crop and location and subsequent crop year coverage period for which the decision will apply will be specified in a list maintained by FSA. If the crop and location is not on that list, then insufficient chill hours can only be an eligi

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 1437.10