Farmers must now enroll in ARC, PLC
June 15, 2015 |02:17 PM
Farmers who elected to take the new farm safety net programs — Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) — must return to their county Farm Service Agency offices to enroll in those programs for 2014 and 2015, the Agriculture Department announced today.
The enrollment period begins Wednesday and lasts until September 30, according to a USDA news release.
Kent Politsch, a spokesman for the Farm Service Agency, told The Hagstrom Report that election and enrollment are two different steps, but that the enrollment in many cases will amount to no more than signing a document.
But Politsch said that this step must be taken in person in a county office and cannot be done online.
Nationwide, 96 percent of soybean farms, 91 percent of corn farms, and 66 percent of wheat farms elected ARC, while 99 percent of long-grain rice farms, 99 percent of peanut farms, and 94 percent of medium grain rice farms elected PLC. (See link.)
Many farmers have signed up for ARC for one crop and PLC for another.
Covered commodities under ARC and PLC include barley, canola, large and small chickpeas, corn, crambe, flaxseed, grain sorghum, lentils, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, dry peas, rapeseed, long grain rice, medium grain rice (which includes short grain and sweet rice), safflower seed, sesame, soybeans, sunflower seed and wheat. Upland cotton is no longer a covered commodity.
The enrollment period begins Wednesday and lasts until September 30, according to a USDA news release.
Kent Politsch, a spokesman for the Farm Service Agency, told The Hagstrom Report that election and enrollment are two different steps, but that the enrollment in many cases will amount to no more than signing a document.
But Politsch said that this step must be taken in person in a county office and cannot be done online.
Nationwide, 96 percent of soybean farms, 91 percent of corn farms, and 66 percent of wheat farms elected ARC, while 99 percent of long-grain rice farms, 99 percent of peanut farms, and 94 percent of medium grain rice farms elected PLC. (See link.)
Many farmers have signed up for ARC for one crop and PLC for another.
Covered commodities under ARC and PLC include barley, canola, large and small chickpeas, corn, crambe, flaxseed, grain sorghum, lentils, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, dry peas, rapeseed, long grain rice, medium grain rice (which includes short grain and sweet rice), safflower seed, sesame, soybeans, sunflower seed and wheat. Upland cotton is no longer a covered commodity.
