Ag producers across Lyon and surrounding counties are being reminded to enroll in the US Department of Agriculture’s commodity safety net programs — and to do so as soon as possible.
Producers who haven’t yet enrolled in Agriculture Risk Coverage or Price Loss Coverage programs for the 2023 crop year have until March 15 to pick and enroll a contract. Producers have the option of enrolling in ARC-County or PLC, which are both done by commodity, or ARC-Individual, which covers an entire farm.
This is an annual process in most cases. If producers have multi-year contracts and make an election change, they need to sign new contracts.
Producers who don’t submit elections by March 14 will have the same election as they enrolled for the 2022 crop year.
Numerous crops are eligible for election and enrollment: 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.
*Click here for the Gardner-farmdoc Payment Calculator, letting producers estimate payments for farms and counties for ARC-CO and PLC.
*Click here for the ARC and PLC Decision tool, letting producers estimate payments, yield updates and expected payments for 2023.
