C r o p I n s u r a n c e VisitWebsite ag-risk.org 2019 NCIS Schools & Field Days Every year, National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) hosts loss adjuster schools and field days all over the country with a mission to educate new and experienced adjusters alike. Most schools start with classroom training, which is followed by hands-on field training where adjusters can learn or revisit current standardized procedures to prepare themselves for successfully completing loss appraisals in the future. In 2019, NCIS held 16 schools with hundreds of adjusters, supervisors, and trainers in attendance. NCIS staff and the Kentucky/Tennessee Regional/State Committee conducted a Tobacco Train-the-Trainer session in late April on the new Crop-Hail loss instructions for burley and flue-cured tobacco. A few months later, adjusters were trained on those same procedures at a school held at the University of Kentucky Spindletop Farm near Lexington. Training at both schools included a discussion of the new adjusting procedures and different types of leaf area damage and how that is accounted for in the adjustment process. The field day for the Crop-Hail Canola and Crop-Hail & MPCI Wheat School was held at the North Central Research Station near Lahoma, OK, in mid-May. More than 75 adjusters completed four rotations, including hands-on application of Crop-Hail and MPCI procedures for wheat and canola and a grain cart measuring exercise.http://ag-risk.org