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Farm Bill What-If Tool
This program calculates Agricultural Risk Coverage for County Coverage (ARC-CO), Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments, and ARC at the Individual Level (ARC-IC). County yields and market year average (MYA) prices…
ECO/SCO Payment Estimator
Farm Projection Tool
This program calculates per-acre budgets for different crops and a whole farm budget and includes breakevens. Projected financial statements and return sensitivities are available. The effects of farm level crop…
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Timely Payments: The Case for Commodity Programs That Pay at Harvest
Since 2019, ARC-CO (Agriculture Risk Coverage – county version) and PLC (Price Loss Coverage) payments have approximately followed market returns: large when market losses are large and small when markets…
Crop Insurance Loss Performance and Impacts on Farmer Net Support by Crop
A recent farmdoc daily article (July 21, 2026) provided an analysis of the performance of the federal crop insurance program in 2025, discussing how it was “typical” when compared to…
Rethinking Phosphorus and Potassium, Part 2: Grain Removal Values
Soil Testing Strategies As discussed in part 1 of this series (see farmdoc daily article from June 29, 2026), grain removal rates are foundational to phosphorus (P) and potassium (K)…
Could this Cattle Inventory Report Signal Initiation of a New Cattle Cycle?
The USDA’s mid-year cattle inventory report will be released this Friday, July 24, 2026, with many anticipating still lower inventories as drought conditions across much of cattle country could lead…
Latest Farm Policy News Articles
Farmers Spent $1.4 Billion More on Diesel During Planting Season
Successful Farming’s Mariah Squire reported that, “a new study by Joint Economic Committee Democrats found that farmers of key crops in the U.S. spent $1.4 billion more on diesel fuel…
Corn Conditions Drop Amid Heatwave
AgWeb’s Tyne Morgan reported that, “triple-digit heat indices swept across the Midwest and Plains late last week and into the weekend, and the damage is already showing up in the…
House Adopts Budget Proposal for Package with $12 Billion in Farm Aid
Progressive Farmer’s Jake Zajkowski reported that, “the House of Representatives passed a $95 billion budget resolution Wednesday along party lines that would direct up to $12 billion in aid to…
Agricultural Labor Bill Divides Republican Party
Newsweek’s Billal Rahman reported that, “hard-line Republican lawmakers and conservative groups are criticizing a GOP-backed agricultural labor bill that would allow some undocumented farmworkers to obtain temporary legal status, arguing…
USDA Moves Forward with Mandatory Relocation Despite Pushback
Meatingplace’s Peter Voskamp reported that, “the USDA Rural Development Mission Area recently announced that it is moving forward with its declared intention to move nearly 3,000 members of its workforce…