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S Illinois | Probably repeating some of the others post but ARC is sort of as follows.
A benchmark price is established like you had mentioned from an Olympic average cash price from the preceding 5 years not including the marketing year that is not finished when signup is done. So for 2025 it was the Olympic average cash price received by producers between the marketing years of 2019/2020 and 2023/2024. For the 2025 corn crop the benchmark price was $5.03.
Each county has its own calculated Olympic average yield. This uses the crop years 2019-2023.
Here is a link to them. https://www.fsa.usda.gov/documents/arcco-2025-data-20250210
From these two values(benchmark county yield and benchmark price) a benchmark revenue is established and then 86% of that value is the county revenue guarantee. Whenever the actual co revenue falls below the guarantee then payments begin.
For the actual co revenue the calculation is as follows:the county yield for the 2025 crop multiplied by the 2025 marketing average cash price received by producers between Sept 1 2025 and Aug 31 2026. As of today that value is at $4.15.
So take the county yield times $4.15. Then subtract that from county revenue guarantee. That difference is your ARC payout on your corn base acres. There is a limit of 10% of the benchmark revenue(the revenue number before the 86% factor) being payed out.
More numbers if you have time to research.
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/resources/programs/arc-plc/program-data
Edit: Payouts are more likely this year despite decent yields because the marketing year price received by producers is looking roughly to be 82% of the benchmark price. It's sort of like crop insurance paying out even with good yields because there was a big price drop between spring and fall.
Edit 2: There are also now trend adjustments for the Olympic average years. So that each year of older county yields get a bump like TA does for crop insurance.
Edited by w1891 5/21/2026 19:35
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