Senators propose ARC changes
Story Date: 10/26/2017

 

Source: Chris Clayton, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 10/24/17

While it's widely expected that the House and Senate Agriculture Committees will make several changes to the Agricultural Risk Coverage program in the next farm bill, a pair of senators put down their bipartisan marker for adjusting the way ARC-County calculates county revenue. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., introduced a bill Tuesday to shift the data used for ARC-County and change how payments are determined based on where a farm is physically located.

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