A Review of 2025 Estimated ARC & PLC Payment Calculations

We provide a webinar on 2025 payment calculations

Right after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was released, we worked up a spreadsheet showing the amount of extra payments due to the increased effective reference price.

That estimate was based on the 2024 enrolled acres and used June 2025 projected MYA prices for crops from USDA.

After the WASDE report came out last week, we had a major drop in the corn MYA price from $4.20 to $3.90. That alone increased final estimated payments to farmers next October by over $3.5 billion.

Today, we are providing about a 30-minute webinar on how we calculated the extra payments. Plus, we provide some additional context on what the payments might look like after adjusting for the 85% of base acres limit plus an estimate of extra payments for ARC.

Remember that Congress will automatically pay the farmer the higher of ARC or PLC for the 2025 crop only.

The webinar is actually the taping I did for Top Producer that will go live later this week and is raw footage, therefore, there may be a little bit of editing on their end.

Here is the webinar: