Farmers have about a month to left to enroll in their risk protection programs.
Doug Yoder, crop agency manager for Country Financial, says deciding between the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) program could be more difficult this year. For example…
“Instead of using $3.70 for the reference price,” he says, “PLC will use $4.01 a bushel for corn. So that’s a 31 cent higher price protection than PLC’s ever offered before.