Farm Bill Features
SURE Complaints Mount Farm Program Flirts With Own Disaster Mon Aug 2, 2010 11:40 AM CDT
Farm Program Flirts With Own Disaster he experiment with SURE -- the complex revenue-based disaster program authorized by the 2008 Farm Act -- results in on-again, off-again payments, errors and inequities. Some growers receive princely payments and their neighbors with nearly identical circumstances receive nothing.
Scrutinizing Direct Payments Iowa Farm Bureau Looks at Other Options Ahead of 2012 Tue Aug 17, 2010 03:23 PM CDT
With a large federal deficit and the need to find more resources for programs that could help young farmers, members of the Iowa Farm Bureau are looking at trading in the direct-payment program for a better farm revenue protection program.
Peterson: No Payment Limits Limits Are "Political Correctness" Run Amuck Mon May 17, 2010 05:28 PM CDT
Fuss over farm program payment limits is distracting from what the policy discussion really ought to focus on, according to House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, who says he would like there to be no payment limits.
Farm Bill Primer
Farm Bill Primer 9/23/08 5:29PM
Here are some of the highlights of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008.
2008 Farm Bill Q and A 9/24/08 7:01AM
DTN's Chris Clayton Answers Your Farm Bill Questions
DTN will be carrying articles explaining the ins and outs of the farm bill and how producers can best take advantage of it. Here are a couple of questions about commodity programs that came in from DTN readers.
Farm Bill Q and A 9/24/08 7:02AM
Why Should City People Care?
DTN will be carrying articles explaining the ins and outs of the farm bill and how producers can best take advantage of it. This time, DTN's Chris Clayton gives reasons why city slickers should care about this legislation.
2008 Farm Bill Q and A 9/24/08 7:05AM
ACRE, AGI, Crop Insurance Questions Abound
DTN will be carrying articles explaining the ins and outs of the farm bill and how producers can best take advantage of it. This time, producers want to know more about how the Average Crop Revenue Election program will work and how farmers will be affected by changes in income eligibility.
Farm Bill Q & A 9/24/08 7:06AM
Shifts in Direct Payments
DTN answers farm bill questions sent to us by readers. Today's inquiries focus on payment limits and the ACRE provisions.
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DTN Farm Bill Resources

July 24, 2008

Conservation Provisions of the New Farm Bill -- High grain prices caused by burgeoning world demand forced lawmakers to make a major change in farm legislation. Using adjustments in the conservation provisions, the 2008 bill encourages farmers to produce more crops and keep fewer acres idle. The farm bill reflects a shift to spend more money directly on working lands and places less emphasis on set-aside programs such as the farm bill’s traditional conservation anchor program, the Conservation Reserve Program.

http://www.dtn.com/…

June 6, 2008

Answers to Your Questions About the New Farm Bill -- With the farm bill completed, DTN is getting a lot of questions from producers about specific provisions in the bill and changes to programs involving commodities, conservation and livestock. A webinar with DTN reporter Chris Clayton and farm bill expert Wayne Myers of the firm Kennedy & Coe will take questions Friday and explain some of the various provisions in the legislation. If you have questions in advance that you would like addressed, please send them to farmbill@dtn.com.

http://www.dtn.com/…

Federal websites

USDA’s Farm Bill Home Page:

Important farm bill dates, news updates, upcoming farm bill meetings, learn more about the law

http://www.usda.gov/…

Farm Service Agency:

Your first place to go when looking up program information, dates, deadlines and requirements for commodity programs and comparison with old farm bill

http://www.ers.usda.gov/…

http://www.fsa.usda.gov/…

Natural Resources Conservation Service: The lead agency for technical and enrollment assistance for most USDA conservation programs. Information on enrollment, pilot programs and eligibility are posted on the website for the farm bill's major programs.

www.nrcs.usda.gov

Economic Research Service breakdown of difference between 2002 and 2008 farm bill, farm policy glossary, previous farm bills

http://www.ers.usda.gov/…

University sources:

An ACRES Q+A from Gary Schnitkey at University of Illinois

http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/…

Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri, provides analysis of USDA programs and baseline data projections on income and costs.

http://www.fapri.missouri.edu/…

Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) farm bill 2008 seminar: presentations of farm bill overview, conservation, livestock and dairy provisions, payments limits and southern crop provisions, SURE, disaster programs and crop insurance, ACRE and other program crop provisions

http://www.fapri.missouri.edu/…

FAPRI Iowa State University, examines trade and agricultural data on more global scale

http://www.fapri.iastate.edu/…

Kansas State University's Agricultural Economics website background papers and presentations on the 2008 Farm Bill, including the various ACRE and SURE programs, and crop insurance

http://www.agmanager.info/…

Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University, provides economic analysis of government agricultural policy

http://www.card.iastate.edu/…

Farm Gate, University of Illinois Extension, provides analysis of farm programs and market issues in a blog format.

http://www.farmgate.uiuc.edu/…

Texas A&M Agricultural and Food Policy Center, examines agricultural policy decisions with an emphasis on southern crops and livestock

http://www.afpc.tamu.edu/…

Ohio State University Professor Carl Zulauf's analysis of farm programs, includes focus on ACRE and SURE

http://aede.osu.edu/…

Private Organization Resources:

National Farmers' Union, with grassroots members in organized chapters in 32 states, works to protect and enhance the economic well-being and quality of life for family farmers and ranchers and their rural communities. The NFU developed a Farm Bill Toolbox to help people understand the Farm Bill.

http://nfu.org/…

American Farmland Trust, a non-profit membership organization dedicated to protecting the country's strategic agricultural resources, gave its analysis of the farm bill.

http://www.farmland.org/…

American Farm Bureau Federation, an independent, non-governmental, voluntary organization governed by and representing farm and ranch families, released its summary of the farm bill's provisions.

http://www.fb.org/…