ARC/PLC

The farmdoc team at the University of Illinois has released updated final estimates for 2025 Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments for corn, soybean, and wheat base acres. These payments are scheduled to be received by farmers in October 2026. Using recently released NASS county yield…

By Paul Neiffer/agweb.com Farmers will receive more payments under the changes to ARC and PLC programs, and the increase could be significant. Read the article here.

From farmdocdaily The House Reconciliation Bill includes changes to statutory reference prices used to trigger payments from the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) program, as well as changes to Agricultural Risk Coverage (see farmdoc daily, May 14, 2025). We evaluate how these changes will impact Federal outlays of the six largest…

From farmdocdaily On Dec. 21, 2024, the U.S. Congress passed, and President Biden signed into law, the American Relief Act of 2025. That Act extended the 2018 Farm Bill into 2025, resulting in another year of farmers facing the decision between Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC)…

From farmdocdaily.illinois.edu Because the 2018 Farm Bill was extended, farmers will have the same commodity title choices in 2024 as they have since 2019.  These include the Price Loss Coverage (PLC), Agricultural Risk Coverage at the county level (ARC-CO), and ARC at the individual level (ARC-IC) programs. For the first…

Agricultural producers can now enroll in the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2024 crop year. Producers can enroll and make election changes for the 2024 crop year through March 15, 2024.  On Nov. 16, 2023, President Biden signed into…

The Farm Service Agency is reminding producers and landlords that all changes to farming operations for FY 2023 that result in succession of interest in ARC/PLC contracts must be made by Sept. 29, 2023. Changes that can result in succession of interest contracts include things such as a sale of…

The 2018 Farm Bill reauthorized the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) program. Elections and enrollment for 2023 ARC/PLC began on Oct.17, 2022, and will run through March 15, 2023. The 2018 Farm Bill allows for changes to the farm election for 2023. Producers wishing to make…

Agricultural producers can now change election and enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage programs for the 2023 crop year, two key safety net programs offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Producers have until March 15, 2023, to enroll in these two programs. Additionally,…

The Farm Service Agency recently updated the annual and benchmark yields for ARC/PLC program years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. This data is useful to producer in choosing to participate in either ARC or PLC. For added assistance with ARC and PLC decisions, USDA partnered with the University of Illinois…