Farm Program Payments and Decisions with Brad Lubben

Center for Agricultural Profitability · Oct 14, 2026

Nebraska producers have until Dec. 11 to make an ARC or PLC election for the 2026 crop year and complete enrollment at their FSA office. Brad Lubben, agricultural policy specialist with the Center for Agricultural Profitability at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explains why those are two separate steps and what happens to a farm that completes one but not the other. He walks through what the 2025 payments arriving this month reveal about how differently the two programs pay, from counties where ARC paid nothing to counties where the corn rate reached $147 an acre. Lubben also covers…