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Policy and Government


  • Commodities
    Farm Service Agency

    Producers are eligible to receive loan benefits on all production of contract commodities on the farm with a production flexibility contract, even if produced on noncontract acres.
  • Commodity Credit Corporation
    Farm Service Agency, August 1996

    The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is a Government-owned and operated entity which was created to stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices..
  • Commodity Operations
    Farm Service Agency, September 1997

    Farm Service Agency’s ( FSA) commodity operations office handles the acquisition, procurement, storage, and distribution of commodities, and the management of the U.S. Warehouse Act (USWA).
  • Farming Without Commodity Programs: The New Risk Environment
    Jerry R. Skees, University of Kentucky

    For nearly sixty years, price and income support programs have been fundamental to U.S. farm policy. For many cash crop farmers keeping up with the changing details of government programs has been an important activity.
  • Managing Farm Risk in a New Policy Era
    Ralph M. Chite and Mark Jickling, Congressional Research Service, January 1999

    The elimination of target price deficiency payments to farmers and the recent decline in some farm commodity prices have raised questions about the adequacy of tools to help farmers manage their risk.
  • Macroeconomic Policy Impacts on Exchange Rates and Trade
    Katheryn Niles, David Orden, Parr Rosson and Geoff Benson, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, May 1998

    Exchange rates, interest rates, government spending, and taxation are all key macroeconomic forces that influence the prosperity of U.S. agriculture.
  • Macroeconomic Policy Impacts on Exchange Rates and Trade (Curriculum Guide)
    Katheryn Niles, David Orden, Parr Rosson and Geoff Benson, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, May 1998

    Goals and objectives: (1: understand macroeconomic policy tools; (2) understand financial market impacts on U.S. agriculture; (3) understand foreign macroeconomic policies and U.S. agricultural trade; and (4) understand the effects of fiscal policies on U.S. agriculture.
  • Nonrecourse Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments
    Farm Service Agency, March 1998

    The Farm Service Agency (FSA), on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), administers nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, soybeans, minor oilseeds (oil-type sunflowerseed, other-type sunflowerseed, flaxseed, canola, rapeseed, safflowerseed, and mustard seed), rice, upland cotton, and extra long staple (ELS) cotton.
  • North American Free Trade and U.S. Agriculture
    Parr Rosson, Geoffrey A. Benson, Kirby S. Moulton and Larry D. Sanders, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, May 1998

    This leaflet provides a long-term view of U.S.-Mexico trade and the implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
  • U.S. Agriculture and International Trade
    Geoffery A. Benson, Mary Marchant and Parr Rosson, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, April 1998

    Changes in trade policies and economic growth rates among countries, exchange rate fluctuations, and the emergence of new competition all influence trade and make the international market more risky for U.S. producers.
  • U.S. Agriculture and International Trade (Curriculum Guide)
    Texas Agricultural Extension Service, April 1998

    Goals and objectives: (1) understand the importance of exports and imports to agriculture and how risk management is affected, (2) understand factors causing exports to change, (3) understand the export product mix, major markets, and the importance of future markets.

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