In today's farmdoc daily article, we look at the intersection of base acres and reference prices. A mandatory base acre update that better aligns program payments with planted …
The marketing year for corn and soybeans is ending with steep declines in market prices, falling due to the expectations for bumper crops. Farmers have been here before; low crop …
G Schnitkey, J Coppess, N Paulson, C Zulauf… - farmdoc …, 2024 - farmdocdaily.illinois.edu
The Farm Bill version reported by the House Agricultural Committee would modify Supple- mental Coverage Option (SCO), a crop insurance policy that provides county-level …
The changes to farm programs included in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 discussed recently were an unusual revision of farm policy both in timing and method (farmdoc daily …
C Zulauf, G Schnitkey, J Coppess… - farmdoc daily, 2018 - farmdocdaily.illinois.edu
The economic state of US crop farming has drawn considerable attention in recent years. This article uses US Department of Agriculture (USDA) cost of production data to compare …
The odds for a farm bill in 2018 have improved considerably. On Wednesday the Senate Ag Committee moved its version of a farm bill with a strong bipartisan vote (20 to 1). House …
Historically, much of the farm program debate has been driven by concerns about low crop prices and a regional dispute about the best policy for addressing those concerns. This was …
This article continues the discussion of the long-running farm policy that triggers payments to farmers using crop prices fixed in statute. The previous articles looked at historic target price …