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Thursday, January 29, 2015
Farm Program Costs Under the New FArm Bill
David Rogers at Politico has a longish piece on projections of costs under the new farm bill. The Congressional Budget Office has revised their estimates upward. Rogers suggests maybe their estimating process has problems, that as prices fall and the new direct payment programs increase their payouts, crop insurance costs will also fall.
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