Here are some comments from Nathan Smith, Extension Economist:<\/p>\n
\u201cFSA recently held training for State Staff on ARCPLC enrollment.\u00a0\u00a0 Producers are required to enroll annually in the ARCPLC program to be eligible to receive payments.\u00a0\u00a0 The enrollment period is expected to begin mid-June.\u00a0 Enrollment for 2014 and 2015 ARCPLC will take place during this signup period. \u00a0Producers will need to complete and sign form CCC-861 (ARC-CO and PLC) or CCC-862 (ARC-IC).\u00a0\u00a0 Also, acreage certification (FSA-578), called cropland certification, is due to the FSA office on July 15.<\/p>\n
New Reconstitution Rules<\/p>\n
A new twist on ARC-County elections will affect payments depending on the county and farm\u2019s irrigation history.\u00a0 For ARC-CO only, counties that meet the HIP (historical irrigation percentage) criteria have irrigated and non-irrigated ARC-CO benchmarks, guarantees, and payments.\u00a0 The HIP criteria for a specific covered commodity in a county are at least 25% of the acres of the crop were irrigated and 25% of the acres were non-irrigated for the time period 2009-2012. \u00a0HIP eligible counties can trigger an ARC-CO payment for one practice or both depending on the county yield each year. \u00a0The farm level HIP factor is calculated same as the county, the irrigated and non-irrigated history of the covered commodity on the farm from 2009 to 2012.\u00a0 The farm level HIP factor will be used to determine the ARC-CO payment for a farm when a payment triggers for the irrigated or non-irrigated practice or both.<\/p>\n
The real concern with the establishment of a HIP for a farm is related to reconstitutions.\u00a0 The rule recently written requires the HIP for each common crop to be the same on all parent farms looking to be combined.\u00a0 In other words, farms with HIP-eligible common crops must have the same HIP factor in order to be combined in a reconstitution.\u00a0 This will effectively prevent combining farms through reconstitution unless they are all irrigated or all non-irrigated.\u00a0\u00a0 Remember, to be able to combine farms, the same ARCPLC elections had to be made on the covered crops.\u00a0 The HIP rule will likely prevent most farm combinations that were planned.<\/p>\n
Prevented and Failed Planting and Generic Acres<\/p>\n
A question that has come up a couple times on prevented planting is \u201cwill prevented planting acreage be attributed to generic base?\u201d\u00a0 In short, the answer is no<\/u> according to Farm Service Agency.\u00a0 A covered commodity, such as peanuts, has to be planted in order to be attributed to generic base.\u00a0 The final planting date for peanuts was June 5 for most counties in Georgia.\u00a0 The late planting period runs either 10 or 15 days after the final planting date where coverage is reduced 1% per day until June 15.<\/p>\n
Failed planting acres of a covered commodity, however, does count<\/u> and will be attributed to generic base on a farm with generic base.\u00a0\u00a0 Below is an update of prevented and failed planting info from 2014 Peanut Pointers article.<\/p>\n
Final Planting Date (FPD)<\/strong><\/p>\n The Final Planting Date is the last date a producer may plant and the acreage be eligible for full crop insurance coverage (receive the 100% of Production Guarantee or Revenue Guarantee). The producer is not required to plant after the FPD but may do so at reduced coverage of 1% per day through the late planting period.<\/p>\n Georgia Final Planting Date<\/strong><\/p>\n Late Planting Period (LPP). <\/strong>If the producer so elects, planting may continue during the late planting period at reduced coverage of 1% per day. Planting may continue even after the late planting period and coverage will be at the Prevented Planting guarantee (50% of the full season guarantee for cotton and peanuts and 60% of the full season guarantee for grain sorghum and soybeans).<\/p>\n Georgia Late Planting Period<\/strong><\/p>\n Farmers can still plant peanuts and cotton after June 15, but the guarantee drops to 50 percent for peanuts and cotton. If the producer is unable to plant by the final planting date, the producer may file for prevented planting\u201d and must do so within 72 hours after the Final Planting Date. If the producer is unable to plant during the Late Planting Period, again the producer must file for \u201cprevented planting\u201d within 72 hours of the late planting deadline. Filing for prevented planting requires documentation on the part of the producer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are some comments from Nathan Smith, Extension Economist: \u201cFSA recently held training for State Staff on ARCPLC enrollment.\u00a0\u00a0 Producers are required to enroll annually in the ARCPLC program to be eligible to receive payments.\u00a0\u00a0 The enrollment period is expected to begin mid-June.\u00a0 Enrollment for 2014 and 2015 ARCPLC will take place during this signup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/brooksag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/brooksag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/brooksag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/brooksag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/brooksag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/brooksag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/brooksag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/brooksag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/brooksag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/brooksag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n Crop <\/strong><\/td>\n Date <\/strong><\/td>\n Counties <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Cotton<\/td>\n May 20<\/td>\n Bartow, Chattooga, Elbert, Floyd, Franklin, Gordon, Hart, Henry, McDuffie, Monroe, Morgan, Oconee, Polk, Spalding, Walton, and Warren<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Cotton<\/td>\n May 31<\/td>\n All other counties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Peanut<\/td>\n May 31<\/td>\n Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Richmond, Treutlen, Washington, Wilkinson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Peanut<\/td>\n June 5<\/td>\n All other counties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Grain Sorghum<\/td>\n June 20<\/td>\n All counties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Soybeans<\/td>\n June 15<\/td>\n All counties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n\n
\n Crop <\/strong><\/td>\n Period <\/strong><\/td>\n Counties <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Cotton<\/td>\n May 21 \u2013 June 4(15 days)<\/td>\n Bartow, Chattooga, Elbert, Floyd, Franklin, Gordon, Hart, Henry, McDuffie, Monroe, Morgan, Oconee, Polk, Spalding, Walton, and Warren<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Cotton<\/td>\n June 1 \u2013 June 15(15 days)<\/td>\n All other counties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Peanut<\/td>\n June 1 \u2013 June 15(15 days)<\/td>\n Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Richmond, Treutlen, Washington, Wilkinson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Peanut<\/td>\n June 6 \u2013 June 15(10 days)<\/td>\n All other counties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Grain Sorghum<\/td>\n June 20 \u2013 July 04(15 days)<\/td>\n All counties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Soybeans<\/td>\n June 16 \u2013 July 10(25 days)<\/td>\n All counties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n