FSA News - Lone Star State Edition: February 2022 Page: 4
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Sincerely,
Kristy Oates
State Conservationist
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Texas
Agricultural Producers Have Until March 15 to
Enroll in USDA's Key Commodity Safety Net
Programs
Agricultural producers who have not yet enrolled in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC)
or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2022 crop year have until March 15,
2022, to sign a contract. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers these two
safety net programs to provide vital income support to farmers experiencing substantial
declines in crop prices or revenues.
Producers can elect coverage and enroll in ARC-County or PLC, which are both crop-by-
crop, or ARC-Individual, which is for the entire farm. Although election changes for 2022
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 2022, it
will be necessary to sign a new contract.
If an election is not submitted by the March 15, 2022, deadline, the election remains the
same as the 2021 election for crops on the farm. Farm owners cannot enroll in either
program unless they have a share interest in the crop.
Producers have completed 976,249 contracts to date, representing 54% of the more than
1.8 million expected contracts.
Producers who do not complete enrollment by the deadline will not be enrolled in ARC or
PLC for the 2022 crop year and will not receive a payment if triggered.
Producers are eligible to enroll farms with base acres for the following
commodities: 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.
Decision Tools
In partnership with USDA, two web-based decision tools are available to assist producers
in making informed, educated decisions using crop data specific to their respective
farming operations:
" 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.4
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