The Dry Pea Crop Insurance Provisions for the 2025 and succeeding crop years are as follows:
United States Department of Agriculture
FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION
Dry Pea Crop Provisions
In return for your payment of premium and administrative fee for the coverage, these Dry Pea Crop Provisions will be attached to and made part of the Common Crop Insurance Policy, Basic Provisions (Basic Provisions) subject to the terms and conditions in your policy.
Adequate stand. A population of live plants per acre that will produce at least the yield used to establish your production guarantee.
Base contract price. The price per pound stipulated in the processor/seed company contract without regard to discounts or incentives that may apply, and that will be paid to the producer for at least 50 percent of the total production under contract with the processor/seed company.
Combining. A mechanical process that separates dry peas from the pods and other vegetative matter and places dry peas into a temporary storage receptacle.
Conditioning. A process that improves the quality of production by screening or any other operation commonly used in the dry pea industry to remove dry peas that are deficient in quality.
Contract seed types. Peas (Pisum sativum L.) or other categories of dry peas identified in the Special Provisions grown under the terms of a processor/seed company contract for the purpose of producing seed to be used in planting a future year's crop.
Dry peas. Peas (Pisum sativum L.), Austrian Peas (Pisum sativum spp arvense), Fava or Faba beans (Vicia faba L.), Lentils (Lens culinaris Medik.), Chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.), and other types as listed in the Special Provisions or insured by written agreement.
Harvest. Combining of dry peas. Dry peas that are swathed prior to combining are not considered harvested.
Latest final planting date.
Local market price. The cash price per pound for the U.S. No. 1 grade of dry peas as determined by us. This price will be considered the prevailing dollar amount buyers are willing to pay for dry peas containing the maximum limits of quality deficiencies allowable for the U.S. No. 1 grade. Moisture content and factors not associated with grading under the United States Standards for Whole Dry Peas, Beans (Chickpeas, Fava or Faba beans), and Lentils will not be considered, unless otherwise specified in the Special Provisions.
Nurse crop (companion crop). A crop planted into the same acreage as another crop to improve the growing conditions for the crop with which it is grown, and that is intended to be harvested separately.
Planted acreage. In addition to the definition contained in the Basic Provisions, dry peas must initially be planted in rows to be considered planted. Acreage planted in any other manner will not be insurable unless otherwise provided by the Special Provisions or by written agreement.
Practical to replant. In addition to the definition contained in the Basic Provisions, it will be considered practical to replant:
Prevented planting. As defined in the Basic Provisions, except that the references to "final planting date" contained in the definition in the Basic Provisions are replaced with the "latest final planting date."
Price election. In addition to the definition contained in the Basic Provisions, the price election for contract seed types will be the percentage you elect (not to exceed 100 percent) of the base contract price and used for the purposes of determining premium and indemnity for contract seed types under this policy.
Processor/seed company. Any business enterprise regularly engaged in the processing of contract seed types, that possesses all licenses and permits for marketing contract seed types required by the state in which it operates, and that owns, or has contracted, sufficient drying, screening, and bagging or packaging equipment to accept and process the contract seed types within a reasonable amount of time after harvest.
Processor/seed company contract. A written agreement between the producer and the processor/seed company, executed by the acreage reporting date, containing at a minimum:
Swathed. Severance of the stem and pods from the ground without removal of the seeds from the pods and placing them into windrows.
Type. A category of dry peas identified as a type in the Special Provisions or insured by written agreement.
Windrow. Dry peas where the plants are cut and placed in a row.
In accordance with section 4 of the Basic Provisions, the contract change date is June 30 preceding the cancellation date for counties with an October 31 cancellation date, or November 30 preceding the cancellation date for counties with a March 15 cancellation date.
In accordance with section 2 of the Basic Provisions, the cancellation and termination dates are as follows:
State and county | Cancellation and termination dates |
All counties in California and Arizona Counties: La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Pima, Pinal, and Yuma | October 31. |
All other Arizona counties and all other states | March 15. |
In addition to the provisions of section 6 of the Basic Provisions, you must submit a copy of the processor/seed company contract to us on or before the acreage reporting date if you are insuring contract seed types.
In addition to the provisions of section 9 of the Basic Provisions:
In accordance with the provisions of section 11 of the Basic Provisions, and subject to the provisions provided by the Winter Coverage Option (see section 15) if you elect such option, the insurance period is as follows:
In accordance with the provisions of section 12 of the Basic Provisions, insurance is provided only against the following causes of loss that occur during the insurance period:
Representative samples are required in accordance with section 14 of the Basic Provisions.
Examples for Section 13(b)
Example 1:
In this example, you have not elected optional units by type. You have a 100 percent share in 100 acres of spring-planted smooth green dry edible peas in the unit, with a production guarantee of 4,000 pounds per acre and a price election of $0.15 per pound. Your selected price election percentage is 100 percent. You are only able to harvest 200,000 pounds. Your indemnity would be calculated as follows:
Example 2:
Assume the same facts in example 1. Also assume you have a 100 percent share in 100 acres of contract seed types in the same unit, with a production guarantee of 5,000 pounds per acre and a base contract price of $0.40 per pound. Your selected price election percentage is 100 percent. You are only able to harvest 450,000 pounds. Your total indemnity for both spring-planted smooth green dry edible peas and contract seed types would be calculated as follows:
End of Examples.
The value will not be reduced for:
7 C.F.R. §457.140