Changes Are Coming to U.S. Dairy Policy
Dairy farms have faced bouts of very low margins of milk prices over feed costs, and new subsidies propose to remedy that with insurance and, perhaps, supply management. See PDF article here: “Changes...
View ArticleWhat Can Be Done to Reinvigorate U.S. Agricultural Research?
Agricultural R&D yields very high returns, but total public and private spending has stalled. Innovative funding approaches combining private and public funds to finance publicly performed research...
View ArticleRisk Management and the Farm Bill: The Role of Crop Insurance
Risk management subsidies, of which federal crop insurance is a large component, have an expanding role in federal farm programs and are of growing importance for California specialty crops. See PDF...
View ArticleHow does the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program affect the United...
Read the full article here: How Does the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Affect the United States Economy? By Jeffrey J. Reimer. OreCal Issues Brief No. 011. November 2013. The food stamp...
View ArticleA regional look at the distribution of farm program payments and how it may...
Read the full article here: A Regional Look at the Distribution of Farm Program Payments and How It May Change with a New Farm Bill. By John Antle and Laurie Houston. The magazine of food, farm, and...
View ArticleThe 2014 Farm Bill: Specialty Crop Programs, Food Safety & FSMA and Thoughts...
AIC Director Daniel Sumner on 2014 Farm Bill Specialty Crop Programs (audio). View presentation and audio here: The 2014 Farm Bill: Specialty Crop Programs, Food Safety & FSMA and Thoughts for the...
View ArticleLocal and national government-set rules for production of agricultural products
Four years ago, California voters stipulated than any eggs produced in CA needed to be from hens with more living space. Implications of that law were widely misunderstood. The issue is that national...
View ArticleCongress Needs to Cut Ties With the Cotton Lobby
USNews.com Jan 28, 2016 On December 15, 2015, 100 members of the House of Representatives (80 of them Republicans) urged the Administration to increase subsidies for cotton farms above and beyond the...
View ArticleAIC Presentations at the 2017 Western Alfalfa & Forage Symposium
1. THE FARM BILL AND THE WESTERN HAY INDUSTRY pdf of presentation slides: aic.ucdavis.edu/publications/2017AlfalfaANDForage.pdf video:...
View Article2018 Farm Bill – AEI panel discussion
AIC Director Dan Sumner on panel at American Enterprise Institute: 5/3/2018 CLick here for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKTGwL23lsc&feature=youtu.be The House Agricultural Committee...
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