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BiorenewablesACRE Payment Calculators
Average Crop Revenue Election, or ACRE, is a new commodity program included in the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008. To help farmers and others understand how ACRE works and to compare the likely payments from ACRE relative to traditional farm programs, CARD researchers have prepared a fact sheet about ACRE, as well as three computer calculators. The fact sheet, ACRE FAQs, provides detailed information about ACRE and a brief description of how to use the calculators. The calculators are crop specific: one for corn, one for soybeans, and one for wheat. All ACRE calculations assume that ACRE sign-up is for the 2009 crop year, and all calculations are based on 2009 market conditions.
The calculators are offered as spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel. You must have Microsoft Excel installed on your computer to open and use these calculators. In addition, if you are using a dial-up connection to the Internet, you may find the downloading process a bit slow because of the size of the files.
A link to detailed instructions about how to use the calculators and interpret the results is provided below. We welcome your comments about the usefulness of the calculators (e-mail card-web@iastate.edu).
CARD ACRE Frequently Asked Questions 27 kB
How to Use the CARD ACRE Calculators 15 kB
Download the CARD ACRE calculators
Note to users: If you have trouble changing the cell data in these versions of the calculators, please e-mail card-web@iastate.edu for alternate versions of the Excel files.