Biofuels, the Renewable Fuel Standard, and the farm bill
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The farm bill, conservation, and the environment
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Trump’s trade war subsidies for farmers fail to help those struggling to survive
As with so many other farm programs, the Trump administration’s trade war subsidies are overwhelmingly flooding to financially successful and stable large-scale agribusinesses.
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Are presidential politics behind these trade war farm subsidies?
Market facilitation payments to farmers are a 57% increase in total subsidies and losses from falling prices are already covered under crop insurance.
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There’s no looming farm crisis — so there’s no reason to even consider more subsidies
Farm interest groups will use selective information to try to convince legislators that the agricultural sector is facing a crisis. However, when the data is considered in context there is no crisis and therefore there is no need for additional subsidy programs.
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Farm subsidies are a solution in search of a problem | reTHINK TANK
The classic depiction of the American farm is an aging red barn on a plot of land tilled by a struggling mom and pop. Given that image, it’s no wonder that Congress offers billions of dollars in subsidies to American food producers.
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Hemp and CBD may qualify for one of the most lucrative — and wasteful — government subsidies
The 2018 Farm Bill reclassifies hemp as a class 1 controlled substance and makes it eligible for the federal crop insurance program, which is a huge subsidy to big agriculture.
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Farm subsidies: Where the money goes | In 60 Seconds
As AEI Visiting Scholar Eric Belasco explains, the biggest beneficiaries of American farm subsidies are the biggest farms with the least need.
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Conservation programs in the 2018 Farm Bill
The House and Senate draft reauthorizations of the 2018 Farm Bill retain most of the current features of agricultural conservation programs but include changes that may lead to efficiencies and other changes that do little to improve program effectiveness.
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Congress must send aid to those who really need hurricane relief
Many farmers who experienced severe crop losses from Hurricane Michael will quickly be compensated through federal crop insurance and other programs and likely do not need any additional aid.
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US farmers relieved new NAFTA looks a lot like old NAFTA
For US farmers and consumers alike, the new USMCA looks a lot like the old NAFTA, which should be viewed as a great victory for US agriculture.
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Bailing out farmers shows why tariffs were always bad policy
Increasing the federal budget deficit will eventually only make the balance of trade deficit worse. So what is next?
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