The Farm Service Agency is changing the way farmers can calculate ARC County payments for farms in multiple counties. FSA will allow farmers to calculate ARC-CO on physical location of each tract of the farm instead of Administrative County. National Corn Growers Association President Chip Bowling says it’s a change they had been pushing the agency for and so it’s good news.

FSA Administrator Val Dolcini in Washington D.C. says they worked with lawmakers to get approval to make the change. And while it impacted just a small percentage of farmers nationwide, it was an important technical change that could lead to a dramatic boost in payments for at least some farms.

Farmers can now go into an FSA office and request to recalculate their ARC-County payments based on the county where base acres are located. Farmers will have until February 1, 2016 to request a recalculation.