Farmers enrolled 253 million acres in the commodity safety net programs for 2019. From that total, 70 percent of the acres are in the Price Loss Coverage program. For corn, there was a dramatic shift from ARC-County coverage in the 2014 farm bill to PLC in this sign-up. Seventy-six percent of base acres for corn are in PLC. Approximately 60 percent of the wheat acres are also in PLC. Eighty percent of the 2019 soybean base acres were enrolled in ARC-County. Since farmers can’t change their election until 2022, those enrollment levels will be seen for the 2020-2021 marketing year as well.
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