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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Agricultural Producers Have Until April 15 to Enroll in USDA’s Key Commodity Safety Net Programs for the 2025 Crop Year </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Arizona Enrollment Currently At 75% of Expected</span></em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Phoenix, Arizona. March 28, 2025</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> - Agricultural producers who have not yet enrolled in the Agriculture
Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2025 crop year have until April 15, 2025, to revise elections and sign contracts. Both safety net programs, delivered by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), provide vital income support to eligible
farmers who experience substantial declines in crop prices or revenues for the 2025 crop year. In Arizona, producers have completed 1138 contracts to date, representing 75% of the more than 1503 expected contracts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">“Agriculture Risk Coverage or Price Loss Coverage programs provide excellent risk protection, for market declines, at no cost to the producer,” said Oscar Atkinson, Deputy State Executive Director
for FSA in Arizona. “If you haven’t made your program election or signed a contract, please contact your local FSA county office as soon as possible to set an appointment so you don’t miss the April 15 deadline.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Producers can elect coverage and enroll in ARC-County or PLC, which provide crop-by-crop protection, or ARC-Individual, which protects the entire farm. Although election changes for 2025 are
optional, producers must enroll, with a signed contract, each year. If a producer has a multi-year contract on the farm, the contract will continue for 2025 unless an election change is made. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">If producers do not submit their election revision by the April 15, 2025, deadline, the election remains the same as their 2024 election for eligible commodities on the farm. Also, producers
who do not complete enrollment and sign their contract by the deadline will not be enrolled in ARC or PLC for the 2025 year and will not receive a payment if one is triggered. Farm owners can only enroll in these programs if they have a share interest in the
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Many universities offer web-based decision tools to help producers make informed, educated decisions using crop data specific to their respective farming operations. Producers are encouraged
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> Producers are reminded that enrolling in ARC or PLC programs can impact eligibility for some crop insurance products offered by USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA). Producers who elect and enroll
in PLC also have the option of purchasing Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) through their Approved Insurance Provider, but producers of covered commodities who elect ARC are ineligible for SCO on their planted acres. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Unlike SCO, RMA’s Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) is unaffected by participating in ARC for the same crop, on the same acres. Producers may elect ECO regardless of their farm program election. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Agricultural producers visiting FSA to complete ARC/PLC elections and enrollment are encouraged to also conduct other FSA program business during their scheduled appointment including completing
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input costs and falling commodity prices. Congress gave USDA 90 days to implement the program, and that deadline was met. Producers of eligible commodities must submit ECAP applications to their local
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<span style="color:#1D5782">ECAP Fact Sheet.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">More details are forthcoming on more than $20 billion to be made available through the
<em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">American Relief Act, 2025,</span></em> for producers who suffered losses from natural disasters in 2023 and 2024 including $2 billion set aside for livestock producers and other funds that will be administered
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<span style="color:#1D5782">sign up today</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">FSA helps America’s farmers, ranchers and forest landowners invest in, improve, protect and expand their agricultural operations through the delivery of agricultural programs for all Americans.
FSA implements agricultural policy, administers credit and loan programs, and manages conservation, commodity, disaster recovery and marketing programs through a national network of state and county offices and locally elected county committees. For more information,
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