Source: FARM DOC DAILY, UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, 10/2/18


General updating of program yields is not allowed in current House or Senate versions of the 2018 Farm Bill.  However, the House version does allow for program yield updating in drought-designated areas centering in the southern Great Plains and in the Southeast.  There is little empirical evidence that suggests updating is needed more in these drought-designated areas than in non-designated counties. In fact, the drought-designated regions do not include the areas impacted by the major 2012 drought.

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