ARC-CO payments for the 2019 crop year are being processed now that FSA has released county yield information.
Kent Thiesse, a farm management analyst and vice president of MinnStar Bank in southern Minnesota, says although about three-quarters of corn farmers nationwide enrolled in PLC for 2019, growers that endured excessively wet conditions leaned toward ARC-CO.
“For example, if you had 11 percent or more below your benchmark yield you started collecting payments.