Covered Commodities Wheat, Oats, Barley, Corn, Grain Sorghum, Long Grain Rice, Medium Grain Rice, Pulse Crops, Soybeans, Other Oilseeds and Peanuts Other Oilseeds Sunflower seed, Rapeseed, Canola, Safflower, Flaxseed, Mustard Seed, Crambe, Sesame Seed, or any oilseed designated by the Secretary Pulse Crops Dry peas, Lentils, Small Chickpeas and Large Chickpeas
Choice Between ARC and PLC Flow Chart of Title I Producer Choices for Covered Commodities (Does Not Include Upland Cotton) Title I Title XI Base Reallocation Decision Choose ARC County Individual Crop Insurance Can choose to Update Payment Yield Choose PLC Beginning in 2015 can choose SCO insurance option This decision is on a crop by crop basis for each farm unless the producer chooses individual ARC then it is for all the crops on that farm. If all parties cannot agree on the ARC/PLC choice then the farm would not be enrolled in ARC or PLC for the 2014 crop and the farm would automatically be enrolled in PLC for the 2015 crop and beyond.
Who Makes The Decisions? Base reallocation As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide notice to the owners of a farm regarding their opportunity to make an election Yield Update At the sole discretion of the owner of a farm, the owner of a farm shall have a 1-time opportunity to update, on a covered commodity-by-coveredcommodity basis, the payment yield that would otherwise be used in calculating any price loss coverage payment for each covered commodity on the farm for which the election is made. POA s on file will be honored according to FSA
Who Makes The Decisions? (Cont.) ARC or PLC - For the 2014 through 2018 crop years, all of the producers on a farm shall make a 1-time, irrevocable election to obtain - (1) price loss coverage under section 1116 on a covered commodity-bycovered-commodity basis; or - (2) agriculture risk coverage under section 1117. IN GENERAL. The term producer means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shares in the risk of producing a crop and is entitled to share in the crop available for marketing from the farm, or would have shared had the crop been produced. This decision stays with the farm for the life of the farm bill
Sign-up Timeline August 2014 Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March April May June 2015 Fix Planted Acres with FSA 17th Choice Between ARC & PLC 31st 29th Reallocate Bases & Update Yields 27th Mid Annual Sign-up Summer?? 2nd Dec 19 Dairy Margin Protection Program for 2014 and 2015 Cotton Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) Deadline for the 2014 crop year was October 7 th
FSA letter indicates 5 years of corn planted Obtained From Prior Tenant Yield Updating Farmer Smith On Farm 5 Yrs Farmer Jones On Farm 2 Yrs Farmer Brown On Farm 2 Yrs Year Corn Corn Corn 2008 DNP No Records 95 2009 88 No Records 100 2010 120 No Records 120 2011 100 110 130 2012 150 120 120 Substitute Yield 70 70 70 2013 CC Yield 90 90 90 Could Update to: (88 + 120 + 100 + 150)/4 *.9 =103 (70 + 70 + 70 + 110 + 120)/5 *.9 =79 (95 + 100 + 120 + 130 + 120)/5 *.9 =102
Base Reallocation Example With Cotton Cotton Corn Sorghum Soybeans Wheat Total Base a/ 500 0 0 0 500 1,000 Plantings 2009 200 600 100 100 0 1,000 2010 200 600 100 100 0 1,000 2011 200 600 100 100 0 1,000 2012 200 600 100 100 0 1,000 Average 200 600 100 100 0 1,000 Generic Base 500 500 Share 75% 12.5% 12.5% 0% Reallocated Base 375 62.5 62.5 0 500 Source: House Agriculture Committee Staff
Sorghum 5 acres Wheat - 5 acres Corn - 5 acres Peanuts 5 acres Generic Base Allocation 100 Acre Farm Base Acres: 5 each of Sorghum, Wheat, Corn, Peanuts and 80 Generic Was Cotton - Now Generic Base 80 acres
Corn Peanuts Generic Base - 2014 100 Acre Farm Base Acres: 5 each of Sorghum, Wheat, Corn, Peanuts and 80 Generic If farmer plants 50 acres of wheat and 50 acres of sorghum 80 generic 40 and 40 Sorghum - 45 acres Original 5 acres plus 40 Wheat 45 acres Original 5 acres plus 40 Farmer has protection on 45 acres of sorghum & wheat and 5 acres each of corn & peanuts
Wheat 5 acres Corn 5 acres Peanuts 5 acres Generic Base - 2015 100 Acre Farm Base Acres: 5 each of Sorghum, Wheat, Corn, Peanuts and 80 Generic If farmer plants 100 acres of sorghum 80 generic Sorghum - 85 acres Original 5 acres plus 80 100% to sorghum Farmer has protection on 85 acres of sorghum and 5 acres each of wheat, corn and peanuts
Sorghum 5 acres Wheat - 5 acres Corn - 5 acres Peanuts 5 acres Generic Base - 2016 100 Acre Farm Base Acres: 5 each of Sorghum, Wheat, Corn, Peanuts and 80 Generic If farmer plants 100 acres of cotton 80 generic Generic Base 80 acres idled for the year No covered Commodity Planted to Allocate Generic acres to Farmer has protection on 5 acres each of sorghum, wheat, corn and peanuts
Wheat 5 acres Corn 5 acres Peanuts -5 acres Generic Base - 2017 100 Acre Farm Base Acres: 5 each of Sorghum, Wheat, Corn, Peanuts and 80 Generic If farmer plants 50 acres of sorghum and 50 acres of cotton 80 generic Sorghum - 55 acres Original 5 acres plus 50 Idled Generic Base acres 30 acres Allocated To Sorghum On a acre for acre Basis So 50 added To Sorghum and 30 idled Farmer has protection on 55 acres of sorghum and 5 acres each of wheat, corn and peanuts
Sorghum 5 acres Wheat - 5 acres Corn - 5 acres Peanuts 5 acres Generic Base - 2018 100 Acre Farm Base Acres: 5 each of Sorghum, Wheat, Corn, Peanuts and 80 Generic If farmer plants 100 acres of soybean 80 generic Soybean base 80 acres (FSA will assign a payment yield if PLC was elected for soybeans on the farm.) 80 acres Soybean Farmer has protection on 80 acres of soybean, 5 acres each of sorghum, wheat, corn and peanuts
Covered Subcategory Units Marketing Year 2014-2018 2014-2018 Commodity Reference Price Loan Rate Wheat Bushels June 1 - May 31 $ 5.50 $ 2.94 Barley Bushels June 1 - May 31 $ 4.95 $ 1.95 Oats Bushels June 1 - May 31 $ 2.40 $ 1.39 Corn Bushels Sept 1 - Aug 31 $ 3.70 $ 1.95 Grain Sorghum Bushels Sept 1 - Aug 31 $ 3.95 $ 1.95 Rice Medium Grain Hundredweight Aug 1 - July 31 $ 14.00 $ 6.50 Long Grain Hundredweight Aug 1 - July 31 $ 14.00 $ 6.50 Japonica Hundredweight Aug 1 - July 31 $ 16.10 $ 6.50 Other Oilseeds Canola Hundredweight July 1 - June 30 $ 20.15 $ 10.09 Flaxseed Hundredweight July 1 - June 30 $ 20.15 $ 10.09 Rapeseed Hundredweight July 1 - June 30 $ 20.15 $ 10.09 Sunflower Hundredweight Sept 1 - Aug 31 $ 20.15 $ 10.09 Mustard seed Hundredweight Sept 1 - Aug 31 $ 20.15 $ 10.09 Safflower Hundredweight Sept 1 - Aug 31 $ 20.15 $ 10.09 Crambe Hundredweight Sept 1 - Aug 31 $ 20.15 $ 10.09 Sesame Hundredweight Sept 1 - Aug 31 $ 20.15 $ 10.09 Soybeans Bushels Sept 1 - Aug 31 $ 8.40 $ 5.00 Peanuts Ton Aug 1 - July 31 $ 535.00 $ 355.00 Pulse Crops Dry Peas Hundredweight July 1 - June 30 $ 11.00 $ 5.40 Lentils Hundredweight July 1 - June 30 $ 19.97 $ 11.28 Small Chickpeas Hundredweight Sept 1 - Aug 31 $ 19.04 $ 7.43 Large Chickpeas Hundredweight Sept 1 - Aug 31 $ 21.54 $ 11.28
$/bu ARC/PLC Decision (Corn Ex.) 7.00 6.50 6.00 5.50 5.29 5.29 5.00 4.50 4.85 4.00 3.50 4.08 3.92 3.00 2.50 2.00
$/bu ARC/PLC Decision (Soybeans Ex.) 16.00 14.00 12.00 12.27 12.27 11.84 10.86 10.00 9.84 8.00 6.00
$/bu ARC/PLC Decision (Wheat Ex.) 8 7.5 7 6.5 6.60 6.71 6.71 6 6.13 5.5 5.67 5 4.5 4
$/bu ARC/PLC Decision (Grain Sorghum Ex.) 6.50 6.00 5.50 5.00 4.50 5.10 5.10 4.74 4.00 4.06 3.95 3.50 3.00 2.50
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Long Grain Rice Ex.) 16.00 15.00 14.00 13.00 12.00 14.17 14.17 14.17 14.17 14.00 11.00 10.00
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Med. Grain Rice Ex.) 18.00 17.00 16.00 15.00 14.00 15.13 14.90 14.78 14.78 14.65 13.00 12.00 11.00 10.00
$/bu ARC/PLC Decision (Barley Ex.) 7 6.5 6 5.5 5.45 5.56 5.56 5.42 5 5.05 4.5 4 3.5 3
$/bu ARC/PLC Decision (Oats Ex.) 4 3.8 3.6 3.4 3.2 3.25 3.49 3.49 3.32 3 3.06 2.8 2.6 2.4 2.2 2
$/ton ARC/PLC Decision (Peanuts Ex.) 650 600 550 500 450 557.33 557.33 557.33 535.00 535.00 400 350
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Sunflower seed Ex.) 30 27.5 25 22.5 23.37 23.37 22.38 20 20.63 20.32 17.5 15 12.5 10
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Canola Ex.) 27.5 25 22.5 20 21.58 21.58 21.58 20.30 20.15 17.5 15
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Flaxseed Ex.) 26 24 23.69 23.69 23.54 22 22.18 20 20.97 18 16 14
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Lentils Ex.) 28 26 24 23.80 22 20 22.76 21.23 20.61 20.78 18 16 14
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Safflower Ex.) 30 27.5 25 24.05 25.21 25.21 24.67 22.5 23.23 20 17.5 15
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Mustard seed Ex.) 40 35 33.27 33.70 33.70 32.58 30 25 30.94 20 15
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Dry Peas Ex.) 16 15 14 13.63 13.88 13.88 13 12 12.74 11.93 11 10 9 8
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Rapeseed Ex.) 28 26 25.83 24.87 24.87 24 22 23.68 23.05 20 18 16
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Lg. Chickpeas Ex.) 45 40 35 33.20 33.20 32.45 30 28.58 27.19 25 20
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Sm. Chickpeas Ex.) 29 27 25 23 21 21.73 21.78 21.78 21.09 20.13 19 17 15
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Crambe Ex.) 40 35 36.13 34.80 34.77 30 25 32.85 31.64 20 15
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Sesame seed Ex.) 50 45 43.43 44.01 40 40.60 35 30 32.53 37.00 25 20 15
$/cwt ARC/PLC Decision (Japonica Rice Ex.) 22 21 20 19 19.53 19.68 19.21 19.21 19.28 18 17 16 15 14 13
PLC and ARC PLC ARC Payment Trigger Reference Price Revenue Benchmark Paid on Base Acres Yes Yes Paid on Payment Yield Payment Trigger Fixed Max Payment Yes Yes, Fixed throughout Farm Bill From Reference to Loan rate No Adjusts each year with Price and yield 10% of Benchmark