Wheat Rounds Out the Set — Now With Oregon and Idaho
We update wheat spreadsheets and add in Idaho and Oregon too
Note - The original spreadsheets were available to all subscribers. These updated spreadsheets are available only to paid subscribers.
This is the last of the spreadsheet posts for today. With wheat now up, the 2025 ARC-CO versus PLC estimators are done for all three crops — corn, soybeans, and wheat — and every file works the same way, so if you’ve opened one you already know the drill.
The wheat files got the same rebuild as the others. Open one and start on the Your Fields tab: pick your county from the drop-down, type in your base acres and your FSA PLC yield, and the sheet pulls the county’s ARC-CO figure, runs your PLC off your yield, shows which program pays more, and multiplies the winner by your acres for an estimated dollar payment. Up to 25 fields, totaled at the bottom. Need to redo one? Select its blue cells, hit Delete, and type the new numbers.
A couple of things worth mentioning on wheat specifically. First, I added two states by request — Oregon and Idaho are now posted alongside the rest. Second, remember the big-picture wheat story: with a PLC rate well over a dollar running against ARC’s 12% cap, PLC is the better program in essentially every county. But on the Your Fields tab, if you plug in a low actual PLC yield for a particular farm, you may see ARC-CO come out ahead on that field — that’s the sheet doing its job, because PLC there is figured off your yield, not the county average.
And as with corn and beans, this stays a living file. The wheat inputs are already loaded — a $6.98 benchmark price, the final $5.06 MYA, and the $1.29 PLC rate that follows from it. Since the MYA price is final, do not adjust any of the prices listed on that sheet.
That’s a wrap for today. Corn, soybeans, and wheat are all live — pull up your state and your crop, drop in your fields, and you’ll have your 2025 program read in a couple of minutes. If your state isn’t posted for a crop yet, send me a note and I’ll add it.
