2025 Corn ARC-CO vs. PLC: Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Nebraska
We provide these four states
We posted the Iowa corn ARC-CO versus PLC report on Tuesday, and our inbox filled up fast with the same question: what about my state? So here you go — Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Nebraska, every county, on the attached spreadsheets.
One update to note first: I’ve bumped the projected market-year average price for corn to $4.15, up from the $4.05 I used in the Iowa report, to reflect the June WASDE. If you downloaded the Iowa spreadsheet, go into the blue MYA cell and change it to $4.15 so your numbers line up with these — everything recalculates automatically.
Otherwise the setup is the same one I ran for Iowa: a $5.03 benchmark price, OBBBA’s 90% guarantee and 12% cap, paid on 85% of base acres, with the corn PLC rate at $0.27 a bushel. And keep in mind that for 2025 you don’t elect anything — you automatically get the higher of ARC-CO or PLC, county by county.
The short version is that the eastern states lean toward ARC-CO, Minnesota leans to PLC, and Nebraska comes down entirely to whether you farm dryland or irrigated. Here’s how each one shakes out.
Here are the details for these four states:
