Arkansas County

You know, you and I were looking at this earlier, Scott.

But so for instance, I've, I've just got Arkansas County, Arkansas, and wheat put in here.

We're looking at the, you know, FSA determined benchmark yields and actual yields plotted over time from 2014 through 2025, 'cause we have both sets of those yields across that timeframe.

And what I'm seeing here is that the actual yield tends to be about 9% lower than the benchmark yield on average.

So that's why I say like this is a county-specific decision.

I don't think we can generalize it across all the counties 'cause every county's got different weather, different soil types, different production practices, and wheat could grow differently in different counties.

And, um, so it's really important just to look at the county-specific decision for wheat 'cause we saw Arkansas County yields were trending lower, but in Chico they're actually trending upward.

So anyway, Scott, are there any other comments? I mean, is there anything else that we need to be telling people about this decision for '26?

You know, when I first...

You know, originally from Arkansas County, there's not a whole lot of livestock in Arkansas County.

I'm sure somebody's showing a animal somewhere in the county-

Yeah

And then this past winter, I actually developed the Arkansas integrated risk management tool, which I don't think we ever did a podcast or a newsletter on, but it's something that I promoted in the counties this past winter.

And what that tool focused on was just Arkansas County.

So it's going to be focusing on rice, cotton, corn, soybeans, and much is my premium for rp and how much is it going to be for my eco and seo coverage and that was prompted in particular by a lot of questions on the one big beautiful bill act and you know do these subsidy changes are they meaningful are these subsidy changes meaningful and to the point where maybe i want to buy the crop insurance now whereas before i didn't want to buy eco or seo or maybe i didn't want to buy rp so is this viable now and so It's one of those things where I've always wanted to do it, but in particular, this tool started at the very beginning of this year.

I love it.

So what state are you insuring in? I think I'm just going to go with Arkansas for this one.

We're just going to start with Arkansas.

And why not just start with Arkansas County,

Arkansas.

So if you could touch on the Game and Fish and kind of what was discussed there.

Yeah, it was kind of an odd coincidence because, yeah, this listener who lives in Arkansas County, and there is a large solar project going in south of Stuttgart.

So if you're familiar with the landscape of the Grand Prairie in Arkansas, you've got Stuttgart, and then the next biggest town going south is Dixie.

Well, just south of town, just south of Stuttgart is a pretty sizable solar project going in.

And we try to pick a data source that we think is going to be right more times than not.

But standing, you know, on a green screen and talking for four minutes, you're really not getting exactly what you need to go hunt in Arkansas County.

And you already mentioned it earlier.

You give the weather forecast for rain or whatever, and it's like it might be five inches for this part of the state and one inch for this part of the state, but it averages out for the whole state or something like that, my basic understanding of it.