New Base Acres: What the One Big Beautiful Bill Means for Your Farm with Anastasia Meyer

Center for Agricultural Profitability · Jun 11, 2026

Federal commodity program payments on many farms are still tied to base acres established in the 1985 farm bill — numbers that haven't changed in decades. New federal legislation gives landowners the opportunity to add base acres for the first time in years, and the review window is open now. Anastasia Meyer, extension agricultural economist with the Center for Agricultural Profitability at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, joins Nebraska FARMcast to explain how base acres are established, who is eligible for an increase, and what landowners and producers need to do before the window…