The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (P.L. 117-328) was signed into law by President Biden on December 29,...
Support for Rice Producers in the Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus
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Bart
Fischer
Research Assistant Professor and Co-Director
The Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M
Where are Commodity Prices Headed in the Next CBO Baseline?
A recent article in Southern Ag Today highlighted that increasing marketing year average prices over the past few...
An Early Look at the Farm Safety Net for Cotton in 2023
From wild swings in commodity prices to an explosion in input costs that would make the Consumer Price Index (CPI) blush,...
Agricultural Provisions in the Reduction Act of 2022
In a recent report by the Agricultural & Food Policy Center (AFPC), we provided an overview of the...
Debt Relief for Certain Farmers & Ranchers
On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021 into law. Section 1005 of...
The Trillion Dollar “Farm” Bill
In May 2022, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest 10-year budget projections for a number of Federal...
Fed Cattle Pricing: Will Well-Intentioned Proposals Actually Reduce Cattle Prices?
While questions about market power in the meatpacking sector have been around for well over 100 years, the spike in retail...
President’s Budget: Does it Matter?
It’s around this time of year – with the release of the President’s budget – that we start to get a lot of questions about...
Should I Buy STAX?
As we’ve traveled throughout the Southern United States over the past two months, one of the questions we’ve most often...