If you farm — or you write crop insurance for folks who do — there's a postcard sitting in a mailbox right now that's worth real money, and a deadline attached that nobody's saying loudly enough. This week I break down the farm-program changes coming out of the One Big Beautiful Bill: what's automatic, what you have to act on, and the dates that'll bite you if you snooze.

Ten minutes, plain English, no government-handbook fog. Here's what we cover:

→ The base-acre postcard and the August 31 deadline to check it

→ Why the 2025 ARC/PLC safety net got stronger (and pays out this October)

→ The mandatory 2026 election — and the trap if you skip it

→ The big win for LLCs, S-corps, and partnerships: multiple payment limits, no more entity-level AGI test, and a September 15 window to restructure

→ Quick hits: SD ...