On July 1, 2025, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) released MGR-25-004 providing relief for insureds who transfer their policy to a different AIP in regard to the requirement to report their production on the current crop year’s policy.

In the past, when an insured transferred their policy between AIPs, they were required to report their current year’s crop production to their ceding AIP by the insured’s production reporting date. If they did not, assigned yield would apply to their actual production history (APH) database(s) for the upcoming crop year. It often resulted in the insured having to provide two production reports: one to the ceding AIP for the 2025 policy crop year and one to the new AIP for the 2026 policy crop year. In addition, it had the potential to have a punitive impact on the insured.

As a result of MGR-25-004, to reduce the punitive impact on insureds who transfer their policy to a different AIP and decrease the resulting burden on all parties, RMA is waiving the requirement to report crop production to the ceding AIP when an insured transfers their policy to a different AIP.

Insureds who transfer their policy to a different AIP for the 2026 crop year may, without penalty, report their 2025 crop year production to their new AIP on or before the 2026 production reporting date instead of reporting their 2025 crop production to the ceding AIP on or before the insured’s production reporting date.

When the insured does not provide an acceptable production report to the ceding AIP, the ceding AIP will not be responsible for reporting such production to RMA and will use the record type code of W on the production record. If the insured provides an acceptable production report to the ceding AIP, the ceding AIP must provide that report to RMA.

For an example and to read the bulletin in full, please click the following link: https://www.rma.usda.gov/policy-procedure/bulletins-memos/managers-bulletin/mgr-25-004-production-reporting-relief-2025-crop