Few producers have chosen the Average Crop Revenue Election or ACRE program, which was introduced under the 2008 Farm Act and uses revenue variability and a combination of State- and farm-level payment triggers. Switching the State trigger to a county trigger has been suggested as a means to make ACRE more attractive. In most cases, county-level revenue is more variable than State-level revenue and is more highly correlated with farm-level revenue; thus the switch would increase expected payments. In some cases, however, these relationships do not hold, and the switch would decrease expected payments.
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