Ken Ripley

You know, it's been a great discussion.

You know, the reality is the big changes for 2026 are going to be this premium support increases.

Trying to decide what you want to do at FSA with the ARC or PLC.

Again, that's always like it is every year.

It's a big decision for growers.

And I guarantee you that, you know, they're many times reaching out to their crop agents for that help.

And there's usually tools there to help with those decisions.

But I want to just stress, because this really helps out the agents when they're working with producers, is we probably have bought a lot of our inputs already.

Come in with what you know your cost of production is.

If we don't have that in play, it just makes buying the right decision package harder.

Agents may have some estimates from whether it's Iowa State or whoever state you're in that help, but it's way better to know because I guarantee my cost of production, Corey's and Tanner's is not going to be the same, right?

They're all different.

But why base your insurance based on somebody else's cost of production versus your own?

So take the time, whether it's over the holiday break here, get the numbers all put together so we know when we start getting into January and February, we know exactly what number we have to achieve.

Yeah, so there was a, hey, go in and make sure your acres are right at FSA by a December 19th date.

But if you certified your acres in the summer, that's really when you're supposed to.

This is really a non-thing.

You don't need to even have gone in the FSA.

You're going to go off of what we did with your 578.

We're supposed to hear what the true payment factors are going to be.