Common use of Yield Loss Estimate Clause in Contracts

Yield Loss Estimate. The method for estimating YL includes the following steps: 3.2.1. Water-Temperature-Monitored Field Identification: The Participating Districts will identify 60 water-temperature-monitored fields (20 fields in each Participating District). The Technical Panel will review selection of the fields and candidate monitoring fields will be selected no later than April 1st of a Harvest-Monitored Year using the following criteria. 3.2.1.1. The Participating Districts will select 20 candidate fields from each District so that cooperation with growers will be successful over the long term. 3.2.1.2. Fields across the range of cold water exposure and field size will be included among the selected monitoring fields with the objective of creating an even distribution, subject to availability of suitable fields. 3.2.1.3. Only fields that are conventionally farmed (e.g., to exclude fields in which experiments are being carried out, fields farmed with minimum tillage, and organic rice fields), are served by one point of first use, and are planted with medium grain rice will be included. Drill seeded rice fields are admissible. 3.2.1.4. Fields having maintenance inlets downstream of the first check would be excluded from yield monitoring. 3.2.1.5. This field selection method provides for the sampling across a range of cold water exposure. The Technical Panel will identify water temperature exposure isotherms with 100-hour increments for total number of hours below 65°F between average planting and average panicle initiation dates (TNBH65). Isotherms will extend from approximately 200 hours to 1,300 TNBH65. The Technical Panel will use a water temperature interpolation map (▇▇▇) from the preceding year to distribute the selection of fields. During the initial year, the ▇▇▇ developed in 2005 will be used (see Figure 2). The ▇▇▇ will be developed based on procedures described in Section 3.2.3.