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.

Most farmers that grow corn, soybeans or other major crops will be making their decision between Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC). PLC is a price program that only pays ...

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 ...

Enrollment for Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) is now open, and a new detailed report from Terrain shows ARC and PLC will offer higher support, for some, in 2025. With ...

photo credit: Arkansas Farm Bureau, used with permission. ARC is a revenue-based program that makes deficiency payments when actual revenue falls below 86% of the benchmark revenue – defined as the ...

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), ...