Tools
Free, no signup, no email wall. Built on RMA's published county data so the figures line up with what your policy actually references.
Elections and enrollment for the 2026 crop year run through December 11. Pick your county and crop, set a price and a county yield, and see what each election pays per base acre — with the FSA arithmetic shown, not hidden behind a result.
681 counties across Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska and the Dakotas, built on FSA's published 2026 benchmark yields and guarantees. Five years of actual county yields sit beside the yield slider so you have something to anchor a 2026 guess to, and a payment grid shows the whole price-by-yield range at once. An ARC-IC check runs the same farm on its own yield history, for the farm that took a loss the county didn't.
Open the analyzerPick a crop year, county and crop; it fills in the expected county yield, projected price and — for MCO — RMA's published operating cost. Model a yield and harvest price, toggle products on and off, and see per-acre indemnity for each one with the full arithmetic shown.
Covers corn and soybeans in Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri, with 2025, 2026 and 2027 rules applied automatically by crop year. Sensitivity grids show the whole yield-by-price range rather than a single outcome.
Open the estimatorNot a calculator, but the thing to read before you use one. A plain read of what RMA changed for the 2027 crop year: the SCO trigger, the ARC restriction, and the narrowed ECO and MCO bands.
It also lays out the dates — including the MCO sales closing that lands months before your spring election, which is the one most growers miss.
Read the guideThe estimator looks forward. This one looks back and asks a hypothetical: if SCO, ECO and MCO had all been available 2018 through 2025, built as they are for 2027, and you had bought them — what would they have paid on your acres?
Real county figures from RMA underneath; the products are the what-if, since ECO only dates to 2021 and MCO to 2026. The clearest way to see whether ECO or MCO suits your ground, and how often that top band gets reached at all.
Run the what-ifThe same question as the what-if, narrowed to SCO and ECO and widened to eleven crop years, 2015 through 2025. Pick a county, crop, practice and coverage level and see what the pair would have paid per acre in every one of those years on the 2027 terms.
Every county in Iowa and Minnesota, shaded on a map so you can see how your ground compares with the neighbours, and a split for each paying year showing whether it was the short crop or the harvest price that did it. The payment factors were checked against RMA's own published figures — 1.6 million of them.
Open the county historyA word on what these are. They are planning tools, not quotes. They use RMA's published county figures, which is the right basis for comparing products — but your actual indemnity depends on your APH, your share, your practice and the final county yield RMA publishes after the marketing year closes. Use them to narrow the decision, then let's confirm the specifics.