Source:  FARM DOC DAILY, UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, 1/28/21


Different farm program payments across crops have been an on-going US farm policy issue, with the focus often on high per acre payments to cotton, peanuts, and rice.  Coppess discusses this issue extensively.  An important economic question is, “Have different payments impacted the geographical distribution of US crops?”  This study finds that, since the late 1990s, the share of US principal crop acres...

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