New Base Acres: What the One Big Beautiful Bill Means for Your Farm with Anastasia Meyer
Federal commodity program payments on many farms are still tied to base acres established in the 1985 farm bill — numbers that haven't changed in decades. New federal legislation gives landowners the opportunity to add base acres for the first time in years, and the review window is open now.
Anastasia Meyer, extension agricultural economist with the Center for Agricultural Profitability at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, joins Nebraska FARMcast to explain how base acres are established, who is eligible for an increase, and what landowners and producers need to do before the window closes. She also covers how the 30-million-acre national cap works, what happens when a farm has no established program yield, and why landowners and operators should be talking to each other about this decision before opting out.
More: https://cap.unl.edu/news/new-base-acres-available-qualifying-farms/
