Section 10305: Agriculture Risk Coverage

Section 10305: The Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) 

Program is getting a few changes.

📅 

Before:

Farmers could get help from this program only through 2023.

📅 

Now:

Farmers can keep getting help through 2031.

💵 

Payment Changes:

If a farm makes less money than usual, the government helps out. But the way they figure out how much to help is changing:

  • For crops grown before 2025, they compare the farm’s money to 90% of what’s normal.

  • For crops grown from 2025 to 2031, they’ll still compare to 90%, but give a little more help (from 10% to 12% extra when needed).

🤓 Translation:

This helps farmers who lose money because of bad weather or low prices. The government is extending the help and giving a little more support starting in 2025.


Would you like me to now create a political cartoon for this section in 4th-grade style?

Here's the original:

SEC. 10305. AGRICULTURE RISK COVERAGE.
    Section 1117 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017) is 
amended--
        (1) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
    by striking ``2023'' and inserting ``2031'';
        (2) in subsection (c)--
            (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``for each of the 2014 
        through 2024 crop years and 90 percent of the benchmark revenue 
        for each of the 2025 through 2031 crop years'' before the 
        period at the end;
            (B) by striking ``2023'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``2031''; and
            (C) in paragraph (4)(B), in the subparagraph heading, by 
        striking ``2023'' and inserting ``2031'';
        (3) in subsection (d)(1), by striking subparagraph (B) and 
    inserting the following:
            ``(B)(i) for each of the 2014 through 2024 crop years, 10 
        percent of the benchmark revenue for the crop year applicable 
        under subsection (c); and
            ``(ii) for each of the 2025 through 2031 crop years, 12 
        percent of the benchmark revenue for the crop year applicable 
        under subsection (c).''; and
        (4) in subsections (e), (g)(5), and (i)(5), by striking 
    ``2023'' each place it appears and inserting ``2031''.

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