Farm Bill Choices

Farm Bill Choices

New to this Farm Bill is the choice for farmers to select either Agricultural Risk Cover or Price Loss Coverage program, many farmers have spent a considerable amount of time weighing their individual situation to assess which avenue best fits their operation.
If producers and owners on a farm fail to make a valid election during the election period, the farm will be ineligible for any 2014 payments and the farm will be deemed to have elected PLC starting in the 2015 crop year. Election is not, however, enrollment. Producers must still enroll their farm to receive program benefits.
Washington wheat farmer and Vice President of the National Association of Wheat Growers Brett Blankenship urges farmers who have yet to select to really examine the options
Blankenship: “Growers should lake a hard look at the PLC coverage but there is also the county Average Risk Coverage — the ARC. The only group that fought for individual ARC was the National Association of Wheat Growers. We fought real hard because we know that countywide programs don’t work where wheat is grown. So do take a hard look at that and see if it can apply to you and let’s make the best choice we can to have the best possible safety net for our growers.”
The County-ARC program allows producers to participate on a crop by crop basis and protects based off of county revenue losses. The individual-ARC program provides individual farm level protection, but all of a farm’s commodities must be enrolled in the program if the farmer selects this option.

 

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