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- 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.
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- 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..
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- Commodity Operations
Farm Service Agency, September 1997
Farm Service Agencys ( FSA) commodity operations office handles the acquisition,
procurement, storage, and distribution of commodities, and the management of the U.S.
Warehouse Act (USWA).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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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