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 ...

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 – ...

For farmers with base acres and eligibility to participate in Title I commodity safety net programs, the deadline for election and enrollment of covered commodities such as corn, soybeans, wheat, seed ...

Have you ever found yourself deep into a complex PLC program, struggling to decipher the logic behind it? Frustrating, right? Well, what if I told you there’s a powerful tool that can not only ...

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 ...

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 ...

PLC has three mentoring programs for students to explore as they navigate their journey in PLC and CU Boulder: PLC 2, where first-year students are paired with upperclassmen PLCers, the Alumni Mentor ...

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 ...