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Ken Ripley

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
565 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

It was all wheat when I was out there.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

This was the early 90s.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

There's an ethanol plant in Richardson, North Dakota.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

That's right.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

So it just shows you that corn is king everywhere.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

There are.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

And for the good.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

So the big thing that came out of the, I'm going to call it the OB3, the one big beautiful bill, there were changes to our reference prices.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

So before we had like 370 on corn and 840 on beans.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

So that was the floor.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

And now those numbers went higher.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

And I apologize, I've got to look at my notes to remember what those numbers all went to.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

But corn went up to $4.10 as our floor and $10 on beans, $6.35 on wheat, up from $5.50 on wheat.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

But we still have the math in those equations where they look at the Olympic average of the prior five years.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

So in effect now our new reference prices for PLC are $4.42 on corn, $10.71 on beans, and $6.35 on wheat.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

So

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

It is, we gain new floors.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

That's put more light back on PLC, the price loss coverage.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

So that plan is truly a price floor.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

We have to fall below that price to get any payment, right?