The One Big Beautiful Bill Act increased the statutory reference price and also made some enhanced changes to the effective reference price (EFR). The EFR is used to calculate payments under Price ...

The 2014 farm bill eliminated the infamous direct payments program that gave farmers subsidies regardless of need. Instead of stopping there and making real progress, Congress created two new ...

When a PLC is used primarily to replace relays, timers, and counters, it's hard to beat the simplicity and usefulness of ladder diagram programming. Their ability to accept programming in ladder ...

The deadline for farmers with base acres eligible for Title I commodity safety net programs was March 16. Farmers had the opportunity to make a one-time election to enroll base acres on a commodity-by ...

For nearly 100 years, the history of the farm bill largely tracks the history of food production in the United States as the legislation evolves to meet the needs of its modern-day constituents – ...

In part one of this series, we looked at the PLC’s internal architecture, briefly discussed Ladder Logic programming, Human-Machine Interfaces, advantages of the PLC’s ability to react consistently ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency encourages agricultural producers to enroll now in the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs. March 15, 2020 is the ...