Agricultural producers can now change election and enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs for the 2023 crop year, two key safety net programs offered by USDA.
Signup began Monday, and producers have until March 15 to enroll in these two programs.
Additionally, USDA’s Farm Service Agency has started issuing payments totaling more than $255 million to producers with 2021 crops that have triggered payments through ARC or PLC.
“We recognize that market prices have generally been very good, but if the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, frequent catastrophic weather events and the Ukraine war have taught us anything, it’s that we must prepare for the unexpected,” says FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux. “It’s through programs like ARC and PLC that FSA can provide producers the economic support and security they need to manage market volatility and disasters.”
2023 Elections and Enrollment
Producers can elect coverage and enroll in ARC-County (ARC-CO) or PLC, which provide crop-by-crop
protection, or ARC-Individual (ARC-IC), which protects the entire farm. Although election changes for 2023 are optional, producers must enroll through a signed contract each year. Also, if a producer has a multi-year contract on the farm and makes an election change for 2023, they must sign a new contract.
If producers do not submit their election by the March 15 deadline, their election remains the same as
their 2022 election for crops on the farm. Farm owners cannot enroll in either program unless they have a share interest in the farm.
Covered commodities include barley, canola, large and small chickpeas, corn, crambe, flaxseed, grain sorghum, lentils, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, dry peas, rapeseed, long grain rice, medium and short grain rice, safflower seed, seed cotton, sesame, soybeans, sunflower seed and wheat.
Web-based decision tools can assist you in making a decision:
Gardner-farmdoc Payment Calculator, a tool available through the University of Illinois allows
producers to estimate payments for farms and counties for ARC-CO and PLC: https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2019/08/introducing-the-gardner-farmdoc-payment-calculator.html
ARC and PLC Decision Tool, a tool available through Texas A&M that allows producers to obtain basic
information regarding the decision and factors that should be taken into consideration such as future
commodity prices and historic yields to estimate payments for 2022: https://www.afpc.tamu.edu/
Find more information on ARC and PLC: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/arcplc_program/index
Or contact your local USDA Service Center: https://www.farmers.gov/working-with-us/service-center-locator
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