Collected Publications for Farm Bill

The Farm Bill in Reconciliation: Loophole as Rosetta Stone; Review and Comment

Impacts of the Commodity Title Changes Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) for Midwestern Farms in 2025

Reconciliation Bill Proposals to Add Base Acres

Dramatic Difference in Expected Yields between Corn, Soybeans, and Cotton for Area-Based Insurance Products

The House Reconciliation Bill Proposal for SCO: Income Support for High-Risk Farmland

Impacts of Premium Support Increase of Basic and Optional Units in House Reconciliation Bill

Spending Impacts of PLC and ARC-CO in House Agriculture Reconciliation Bill

Reviewing the House Agriculture Committee’s Reconciliation Bill

Additional Thoughts on 2025 Crop Insurance and Farm Program Decisions

The Arithmetic of Commodity Title Programs

Potential Federal Policy Responses to Negative Grain Farm Incomes

2024 Low Returns, Prices, and the Federal Safety Net

Reviewing the Congressional Budget Office Score of the House Farm Bill

Cotton STAX and Modified Supplemental Coverage Option: Concerns with Moving Crop Insurance from Risk Management to Income Support

Farm Bill Proposals to Enhance Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO)

Spending Impacts of House Proposal for Commodity Title Changes

Statutory Reference Prices and the Next Farm Bill

Base Acre Updating in the Next Farm Bill

Price Loss Coverage: Evaluation of Proportional Increase in Statutory Reference Price and a Proposal

A View of the Farm Bill Through Policy Design, Part 4: ARC and PLC

Farm Bill 2023: Another Perspective on Reference Prices and Base Acres

Farm Bill 2023: The Intersection of Base Acres and Reference Prices

Farm Bill 2023: Planted Acres and Additional Pieces of the Base Acres Puzzle

Farm Bill 2023: Reviewing Pieces of the Base Acres Puzzle

Commodity Title Choices and Payment Expectations

PLC and ARC-CO for Soybeans: Payments and Perspectives

ARC-CO: Background, Payments, and Perspectives for Corn

2023 and 2024 Effective Reference Prices and the Next Farm Bill

Mulling over Margin, Part 5: An Inherent Problem with Margin Protection Programs

Mulling over Margin, Part 4: Lessons from Canada’s Whole-farm Margin Protection Program

PLC and ARC Payment: 2021 Payments and Outlook for 2022 and 2023

Mulling Over Margin, Part 3: Chasing the Cost of Production Across Regions

Mulling Over Margin, Part 2: the “Elusive” Cost of Production

A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Economic Perspectives on Title I Commodities

Reviewing the Latest CBO Farm Bill Baseline

Mapping the Farm Bill: Reviewing the CRP; Law, Land & History

2021 Corn and Soybean Yields: Implications for Crop Insurance and Commodity Title payments

The 2022 PLC and ARC Decision

IFES 2021: Policy Update for 2022

Pandemic Assistance to Illinois Agricultural Producers in 2020 from the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)

Projected 2020 Commodity Title Payments

Using farmdoc Tools to Make the ARC-CO and PLC Decisions

Release of the 2018 Farm Bill What-If Tool for 2021 Decisions

Reviewing USDA Revisions to the Payment Limitation and Eligibility Rules

Production Controls & Set Aside Acres, Part 1: Reviewing History

Making CFAP Applications for Grain Farms

Would Commodity Title Choices Change Given COVID-19?

2019 Commodity Title Payments – Updates for Corn and Soybeans with Lower MYA Prices

Revised 2019 ARC and PLC Payments Due to Lower 2019 Market Year Average Prices

Adjusting NASS County Yields to Estimate 2019 ARC-CO Payments

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