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  • The 2026 ARC/PLC Decision: ARC-CO vs PLC
    Producers are facing a December 11th deadline to make their commodity program election decisions for the 2026 crop year. Today’s article includes context for the 2026 ARC-CO and PLC programs…
  • US-Mexico Cattle Trade and Beef Markets
    Mexico exported feeder cattle to the US until New World Screwworm caused officials to stop this flow in 2025. In this farmdoc daily article, we estimate the impacts on the US and Mexico going from baseline projections where live trade returns to pre-entry levels to an alternative case with less live trade. As expected, the […]
  • The US No Loss Crop Sector Safety Net
    Consistent with “Crop Loss” headlines dating to 2023, combined loss at harvest totaled $28.1 billion for producing the US 2025 cost of production crops (barley, corn, oats, peanuts, rice, seed cotton, sorghum, soybeans, wheat). However, all but $3.7 billion of this loss was covered by the US crop safety net. Moreover, the nine crops collectively […]