Chapter
Counter-Cyclical Payments (CCP)
Marketing Assistance Loan Program
Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE)
Commodity Programs and Farm-Level Risk
Crop and Livestock Policies
Whole-Farm Insurance Policies
Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)
Supplemental Disaster Assistance
Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program (SURE)
Livestock and Tree Assistance Programs
Additional Disaster Programs Under Discussion
WTO COMPATIBILITY OF CURRENT FARM PROGRAMS
Does US Farm Program Spending Stay Within WTO Limits?
Does the Program Result in Adverse Effects?
Is the US Farm Program Exempt from WTO Limits?
Farm Programs Under the Green Box
Farm Safety Net Under the Blue Box
Farm Safety Net Under the De Minimis Exemption
A Whole-Farm Safety Net Under the WTO
Chapter 2 FARM SAFETY NET PROPOSALS AND THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON DEFICIT REDUCTION
JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON DEFICIT REDUCTION
CURRENT FARM SAFETY NET PROGRAMS
Policy Issues for Current Programs
Effectiveness of the Current Farm Safety Net
Overlap in Farm Risk Programs
Commodity Coverage Limited to Major Row Crops
Payment limits and Farm Size
Farm Policy Alignment with U.S. Trade Commitments
FARM BILL SAFETY NET ISSUES
FARM BILL SAFETY NET PROPOSALS
Group I. Downsize Current Policy
American Farm Bureau Federation’s Recommendations
The Administration’s Deficit Reduction Plan
Senator Coburn’s Deficit Reduction Plan
Growing Opportunities (Representative Blumenauer)
Group II. Revised Revenue Program
Aggregate Risk and Revenue Management or ARRM(Senators Brown, Thune, Durbin, and Lugar)
REFRESH (Senator Lugar and Representative Stutzman)
Crop Revenue Guarantee Program (Senator Conrad)
Risk Management for America’s Farmers or RMAF(American Soybean Association)
Group III. Enhanced Crop Insurance
Stacked Income Protection Plan or STAX (National Cotton Council)
Crop Risk Options Plan or CROP (Representative Neugebauer)
Farm Financial Safety Net (Crop Insurance Company)
Group IV. Whole Farm Revenue Insurance
U.S. Agriculture and Nutrition Policy Statement(Chicago Council on Global Affairs)
Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act(Representative Pingree and Senator Brown)
Farmer-Owned Reserves (National Farmers Union)
Proposed Dairy Legislation
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Proposal
California Recommendations (Coalition of CA Agricultural Interests)
APPENDIX. JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON DEFICIT REDUCTION AND AGRICULTURE POLICY
Legislative Process and Timeline of Joint Committee
House and Senate Agriculture Committees’ Letter to the Joint Committee
Concerns with the Joint Committee Fast-Track Process
Chapter 3 IDENTIFYING OVERLAP IN THE FARM SAFETY NET
What Does the Study Propose?
How Was the Study Conducted?
Defining the Farm Safety Net
Patterns of Program Participation
A Typology of Overlapping Support
APPLYING THE TYPOLOGY TO IDENTIFY OVERLAP
Previous Research on the Potential for Overlap
2008 Farm Act Programs and Their Potential for Overlap
Calculation of Potential Overlap
Overlap Implications for ACRE, SURE, Crop Insurance, and Disaster Payments
Future Research: Exploring the Potential for Type II Overlap
APPENDIX II. BRIEF OVERVIEW OF FARM SAFETYNET PROGRAMS
The Farm Safety Net: Programs, Proposals, Overlap
( Agriculture Issues and Policies )
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