Last week, we did a post on how electing to receive a loan deficiency payment (LDP) may negatively affect the amount of ARC or PLC payments that you will receive in October 2017 for the 2016 crop. One option to get around these limits is to place a loan on your crop (most likely only hard red wheat for the 2016 crop year, however, corn may get close in certain parts of the country) and then pay it off with a commodity certificate. The net gain to the farmer under this strategy will not reduce the amount of ARC or PLC payment in 2017 (assuming the farmer will max out on these payments).
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