Since their inception in 2014, you’ve been choosing between Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC). You have until March 15 to make your choice this year. You can see the price ...

Nebraska USDA Farm Service Agency is reminding producers now is the time to make elections and enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs for the 2024 crop year. The ...

HALLOCK, Minn. -- Kelly Turgeon is on the stretch run of a half-year marathon. Turgeon, executive director of the Kittson County (Minn.) Farm Service Agency, an arm of the U.S. Department of ...

The Agriculture Department has finalized some revisions to two major farm commodity programs, including rules for adding new base acres, but signup for the programs won’t be scheduled until after ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act increased the statutory reference price and also made some enhanced changes to the effective reference price (EFR). The EFR is used to calculate payments under Price ...

Earlier this year, farm owners and operators elected price protection (price loss coverage, or PLC) or revenue protection (agricultural risk coverage, or ARC), for their farm program safety net.

The Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs are two commodity programs under Title I of the farm bill that provide income support to farmers. Title I is explained in ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on March 27 provided farm owners and producers one additional week, until April 7, to choose between Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC), ...

Perhaps this year's farm bill election decision takes more thought than in the past. Part of this is because the reference price for PLC (Price Loss Coverage) and ARC-CO (Agriculture Risk Coverage) ...