During Extension and commodity group meetings this winter, we have been asked over and over what will be in the next farm...
What Do Producers Want/Need in a Safety Net?
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Joe
Outlaw
Professor and Extension Economist
Co-Director, The Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M
What If We Don’t Get a Farm Bill in 2023?
One of the questions we have been getting the most as agricultural policy economists is whether we are going to get a 2023...
What is the Expected Impact of High Commodity Prices on Effective Reference Prices for Covered Commodities
Commodity reference prices are used in both the price loss coverage (PLC) and agriculture risk coverage (ARC) programs to...
Correspondence of Rice Planted Acres to Safety Net Prices
Over the past five years, the federal crop insurance program has become a more important part of the farm safety net –...
Does the May 2022 CBO Baseline Provide Any Information About the Ability to Increase Commodity Reference Prices?
One of the most asked questions we get is whether the next farm bill will contain a reference price increase for covered...
The Securities and Exchange Commission Proposed Climate-Related Disclosures and Unintended Consequences?
In a previous Southern Ag Today article, I discussed the concept of unintended consequences which is a topic we talk a lot...
An Initial Look at Forced Base Update on the South
One of the questions policy economists get the most from farmers is how likely is it that they will get to update their...
While Still Largely Profitable…Crop Producers Putting Historic Amount of Capital at Risk in 2022
This morning I testified before the U.S. House Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk...
Crop Insurance the Key to Avoiding Another Farm Economy Downturn
In 2017 Extension Economists from across the South worked on a major producer education effort that resulted in a book...