10. Department of Agriculture · Notable · Needs Congress
Bar ARC/PLC payments in the same year as a crop insurance indemnity
Printed page 297 10. Department of Agriculture
“Stop paying farmers twice for price and revenue losses during the same year. … Congress should prohibit this duplication by prohibiting farmers from receiving an ARC or PLC payment the same year they receive a crop insurance indemnity.”
What has happened
- Not started
Congress moved the other way in the same statute that could have carried the prohibition. P.L. 119-21 (2025-07-04) Secs. 10301-10305 raise effective reference prices, add base acres, and extend Price Loss Coverage and Agriculture Risk Coverage through the 2031 crop year, while Secs. 10501-10504 raise federal crop insurance premium support — the two payment streams the Quote wants made mutually exclusive were both enlarged, and nothing in the act bars a producer from receiving an ARC or PLC payment in a year in which a crop insurance indemnity is paid. The House-passed farm bill (2026-04-30) continues both titles and adds no such bar. No bill in the 119th-Congress Corpus proposes one. Cluster C (commodity subsidies, crop insurance, farm bill process) in `docs/research/ch-10.md`, round 3 ticket 09 batch 09c, records the queries.
- Public Law 119-21, Secs. 10301-10305 (reference prices, base acres, PLC and ARC through crop year 2031) and Secs. 10501-10504 (crop insurance premium support increases)
- H.R. 7567, engrossed in the House 2026-04-30 — Title I Commodities and Title XI Crop Insurance both continue, with no bar on receiving ARC/PLC and an indemnity in the same year
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- #769 (repeal ARC and PLC) and #771 (cut the premium subsidy rate) sit on the same statute and are also not started; this item is the narrower duplication ask and was leveled on its own text.
- FSA’s implementing rule for the OBBBA commodity changes (FR 2026-00313, 2026-01-12) is on #769’s record; it implements the enlargement and says nothing about duplication.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- duplicate ARC/PLC and crop insurance payments
- ID
- 770