- I wonder how the program provisions will interact with other farm programs, particularly the crop insurance policies for whole farm revenue?
- I wonder whether they will apply a payment limitation on the benefits. Under the legislation authority they're using I don't believe they would have to, but might be criticized if they don't. I've already seen a query on Twitter about payments to big farmers.
- On the fraud end, it would seem that cross-referencing insurance production data and MCP data would be necessary. Fortunately FSA and RMA have ironed out all the differences in their databases so that will be a piece of cake (won't it-- :-)
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Thoughts on the Trump Bailout
Apparently the Market Facilitation Program payments will be tied to actual production:
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