Stop paying farmers twice for the same loss
What the document says“Congress should prohibit this duplication by prohibiting farmers from receiving an ARC or PLC payment the same year they receive a crop insurance indemnity.”
The chapter states that farmers can receive support from the Agriculture Risk Coverage or Price Loss Coverage programs and from federal crop insurance for price declines and revenue shortfalls in the same year.
What the document actually says“Congress should prohibit this duplication by prohibiting farmers from receiving an ARC or PLC payment the same year they receive a crop insurance indemnity.”
A farmer can be paid twice for one bad year. Congress should stop that.
A farmer can claim from two programs at once. Both cover the same loss. The book says only one should pay.
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14
2025-07-04 · 139 Stat. 72
Section 10303 acts on the overlap the chapter would prohibit. It amends section 508(c)(4)(C)(iv) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act by striking the words Crops for which the producer has elected under section 1116 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 to receive agriculture risk coverage and acres, and inserting the single word Acres, which removes the exclusion that had kept crops enrolled in agriculture risk coverage out of that provision, and section 10305 extends agriculture risk coverage itself through the 2031 crop year. The chapter asks Congress to bar a farmer from receiving an agriculture risk coverage or price loss coverage payment in the same year as a crop insurance indemnity, and no indexed law enacts such a bar. The provision amended is not indexed on this site, so what coverage it governs cannot be checked here, and the amendment concerns eligibility for a crop insurance option rather than the receipt of an indemnity.
The chapter asked Congress to bar a farmer from taking a farm payment and a crop insurance payout in one year. The 2025 law goes the other way. It strikes words that had kept crops in one farm program out of an insurance option, and it extends that program through 2031. No indexed law creates the bar the chapter wants.