Showing posts with label MFP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MFP. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

GAO on USDA and MFP

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 GAO questions USDA's approaches to calculating MFP benefits.  Too long, didn't read. (i.e., too complicated for an old man.)
Thursday, December 09, 2021

MFP and CFAP Political Effects

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The bottom line of a study trying to assess whether the MFP and CFAP payments resulted in more votes for Trump in 2020: We find the MFP and...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

MFP Revisited and CCC

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 Three academics at U of Illinois examine some issues of the Market Facilitation Program.  As they say at one point, the questionable lega...
Tuesday, December 01, 2020

Why Was Trump's Support Up in Rural Areas?

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 I can think of two possible explanations I've not seen mentioned in discussions on this issue: The billions of dollars Trump authorized...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Farm Program Payments

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From  here , a nice graph of US farm payments, including MFP and CFAP.  
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Evaluation of MFP

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 NYTimes has a piece tied to GAO's assessment of MFP in a report Monday.   The criticisms seem to focus on higher payments for Southern ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

MFP and CFAP and ?

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Politico has a piece o n Trump's payment programs for farmers, which have set new records, arguing it will be difficult to cut back. ...
Friday, March 27, 2020

What's in the Covid-19 Bill for FSA?

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From Politico : Special deal: The stimulus provides $9.5 billion in emergency aid for the agriculture industry and replenishes $14 billion...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Trump's MFP Leads to WTO Violation?

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That's the Congressional Research Service's tentative conclusion --US may be billions over its "amber box" limit in 2019.....
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

I Told You So--MFP/CCC Financing

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The Rural Blog reports moderate House Democrats are willing to fund CCC, meaning it can continue to make MFP payments. Actually my title i...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Re-upping CCC Money for MFP

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Today the Post reports that Representative Lowery is not planning to include replenishing CCC's borrowing authority in the stop-gap con...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

Farmers Working with FSA and NRCS

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Agriculture.com talks about the traffic to FSA (and NRCS) offices, listing six trips required.  But I found these reported farmer interact...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

MFP II

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Farm Policy blog has a post on the announcement of signup for MFP II If I'm correct, CCC may be getting close to exhausting its borr...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

A Thought for FSA Personnel

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Chris Clayton of Progressive Farmer has tweeted asking USDA for answers on prevented planting. I  expressed doubts as to whether leadershi...

More on the Disaster Aid Bill and Payment Limitation

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From the text of the bill : "Sec. 103.  (a)   (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a person or legal entity is not eligible to r...
Monday, June 03, 2019

Payment Limitations in the News Again

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Been a busy day so I didn't get a chance to follow up on this piece . What strikes me is the idea that the payments were on a US Treas...
Friday, May 24, 2019

MFP II Addenda

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Via Farm Policy News further details on MFP II--based on the USDA big shots' discussion.  The key point I take from it: "Referr...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

MFP II Announced

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NY Times writes about trade policy and Trump's trade war, including the announcement of $16 billion in MFP II. Chris Clayton's ar...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

A New Market Facilitation Program?

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Lots of talk about a new and bigger program to compensate for depressed prices due to Trump's trade war with China. Will it just be th...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

FSA Goes Back to Work?

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Only in part.  Here's the Politico piece on Perdue's telling 2,500 employees to return on Jan 17, 18, and 22. And here's the ...