Farm Bill 101
This project focuses on the biggest Farm Bill issues.
BRIEFLY: Why We Have Farm Bills
APAC: Assumptions of Farm Program, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/381.html
APAC: Executive Summary 1 page, http://agpolicy.org/blueprint/Summary.pdf
APAC: Exec. Summ. pp 1-7 here. http://agpolicy.org/blueprint/APACReport8-20-03WITHCOVER.pdf
APAC: Reason why we have farm programs, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/325.html
APAC: Because we lack price responsiveness, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/248.html
APAC: Total Acreage Response to Price, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/119.html
Brad: (briefly) Farm Bill Facts vs widespread myths, https://znetwork.org/zblogs/farm-bill-facts-commodity-title-a-family-farmers-view-by-brad-wilson/
APAC: Ten Reasons to Change Farm Bill, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/092.html
APAC: Farm prices don’t self correct, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/164.html
WHAT IS [is not] A FARM BILL? (historically & ideally)
Brad: The Hidden Farm Bill (& Visible Farm Bill), http://www.slideshare.net/bradwilson581525/the-hidden-farm-bill-37959389
APAC: Pt. 1: “Dispurse Money” vs Manage Markets, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/323.html
APAC: Part 2 (continued), http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/324.html
APAC: “Money Delivery Systems” vs “original rationale,” http://www.agpolicy.org/weekcol/334.html
ISSUES
GDAE: Gains for Animal Factories, http://www.nffc.net/Learn/FactSheets/CompanyFeedSvgsFeb07.pdf
IATP: Below Cost for Animal Factories, http://www.iatp.org/documents/below-cost-feed-crops-an-indirect-subsidy-for-industrial-animal-factories
APAC: Corps. for Dumping Corn, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/321.html
APAC: Manage Supply For Africa, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/103.html
APAC: Agribusiness uses Supply Management, “Agribusinesses practice inventory management, farmers should not (?)” http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/316.html
APAC: Industries Supply Management, “Other industries have the tools needed to manage excess capacity,” http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/148.html
Brad: video Low Farm Prices=Poverty= Farm/Food Crisis, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQyxnVoFiO4
APAC: How US Lowers World Prices, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/140.html
APAC: Price Floors to End Corn Dumping, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/264.html
FARM COMMODITY SUBSIDIES
FSC-LAF Price Floors Not Subsidy “Scapegoat,” http://www.zcommunications.org/ensure-that-farmers-receive-a-fair-living-wage-by-jerry-pennick-heather-gray
APAC: WTO’s subsidy Premise is Wrong, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/284.html
APAC: Spec. Crop Vs. Commodity, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/323.html
IATP: Address Need for Subsidies, https://www.iatp.org/sites/default/files/2018-01/Understanding%20the%20Farm%20Bill.%20Address%20the%20Need%20for%20Subsidies_0.pdf
APAC: Subsidy, You’re NO Price Floor, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/312.html
APAC: Ending Subsidies will Not Help LDC, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/176.html
GDAE: Subsidy Paradox (see p. 21), http://are.berkeley.edu/courses/EEP131/fall2007/Agriculture/326_Paradox-of-Agricultural-Subsidies.pdf
Brad: Food Leaders Misunderstand Subsidy Evidence, https://znetwork.org/zblogs/philpott-bittman-imhoff-lappe-are-wrong-about-tim-wise/
IATP: Sugar Prog Factsheet, http://www.iatp.org/files/451_2_72787.pdf
SOME HISTORY
APAC: Remember the 1970s price spike? http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/384.html
APAC: Legacy of Henry Wallace, http://agpolicy.org/pubs/RayLecture2004FromGretchen1st.pdf
LRV: Crisis by Design, http://www.iatp.org/documents/crisis-by-design-a-brief-review-of-us-farm-policy
LRV: Political History US Farm Policy, http://www.iatp.org/documents/political-history-of-us-farm-policy
Ritchie: Impact of GATT. http://www.iatp.org/documents/impact-of-gatt-on-world-hunger
IATP: History of De-Coupling. http://www.iatp.org/documents/the-de-coupled-approach-to-agriculture
Naylor: et al Legacy of Crisis, http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ra07/crisis_86.html
Naylor: et al Farm Bill Basics, http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ra07/farmbill_86.html
DeepDishTV: Farm Crisis 1986 video, http://www.archive.org/details/ddtv_8_this_land_is_our_land
See Historical Videos from NFFC, CRL, LRV, Donahue,
FARMER SUPPORT
NFFC: Key Farmer Groups Leading these issues in the US are some of these, http://nffc.net/index.php/who-we-are/nffc-member-groups/
NFO: See their Policy Resolutions, http://www.nfo.org/About_Us/Policy.aspx#domestic_farm_policy
AAM: supports parity (price floor) programs, http://www.aaminc.org/default.htm
WORLD SUPPORT
IATP: Africa Group Calls for price floors, supply management, http://www.iatp.org/documents/on-the-right-path-to-development-african-countries-pave-the-way
Campaign: EU Farmer & Consumer Support, http://www.iatp.org/tradeobservatory/library.cfm?refID=25896
IATP: European Community Plan for Minimum Price & Supply Management (IATP), http://www.zcommunications.org/impact-of-gatt-on-world-hunger-by-mark-ritchie
Brad: Via Campesina supports these key NFFC Policies, https://znetwork.org/zblogs/via-campesina-with-nffc-support-for-fair-farm-prices-by-brad-wilson/
Brad: “WTO Africa Group with NFFC, Not EWG,” https://znetwork.org/zblogs/wto-africa-group-with-nffc-not-ewg-by-brad-wilson/
Via Campesina: 200,000,000 strong, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdlesaYaRxg
MORE DEPTH
NFFC: US Solution: The Food from Family Farms Act. http://www.nffc.net/Learn/Fact%20Sheets/FFFA2007.pdf
IATP: Fair Farm Bill Series. http://www.iatp.org/search/node/%22a%20Fair%20Farm%20Bill%20for%22
APAC: Farmer Livelihoods Worldwide. http://agpolicy.org/blueprint.html
IATP: US Sugar as Model Program, http://www.iatp.org/files/451_2_72784.pdf
GDAE: Corn Sweetener Implicit Subsidies, http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/PB09-01SweeteningPotFeb09.pdf
IATP: WTO Decade of Dumping, http://www.iatp.org/files/451_2_48532.pdf
ECONOMETRIC SUPPORT
IFPRI: Elimination of Subsidies, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/160.html
APAC: POLYSYS, http://agpolicy.org/blueprint.html
APAC: Subsidies and Production, http://agpolicy.org/weekcol/188.html
GDAE: 5 Econ. Studies p. 21, http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/pubs/wp/04-02agsubsidies.pdf
Naylor I: (FAPRI Chart), http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ra07/crisis_86.html
Naylor II: (See text; http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ra07/farmbill_86.html
Naylor et al: ) Full pdf pp. 11,19-22, Farm Aid Cogress Booklet, http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ra07/ufrc_all_lo.pdf
LRV: (Pages 11-15; Footnotes # 13, 19, 21.) “Crisis by Design: A Brief Review of US Farm Policy” http://www.iatp.org/files/258_2_97261.pdf
NFU-Ca: Corporate Profits Documented, “The Farm Crisis and Corporate Profits,” http://www.nfu.ca/sites/www.nfu.ca/files/corporate_profits.pdf
PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT
Brad: Primer on proposals, https://znetwork.org/zblogs/primer-farm-justice-proposals-for-the-2012-farm-bill-by-brad-wilson/.
Brad: FactSheet on Proposals: https://znetwork.org/zblogs/fact-sheet-farm-justice-proposals-for-the-2012-farm-bill-by-brad-wilson/
See also my “Food Crisis Primer.”
KEY FARM POLICY SITES
(These are the only sites I’m willing to link here, so far. I’m trying to stay myth-free.)
National Family Farm Coalition: http://nffc.net/index.php/issues/domestic-farm-and-food-policy/
Agricultural Policy Analysis Center: (APAC) http://agpolicy.org/articles14.html
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: http://www.iatp.org/issue/agriculture/farm-bill
Missouri Rural Crisis Center: http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/rural.html#Anchor-2007-23240
National Farmers Union: MDIS Proposal: http://nfu.org/study
Brad: “Farm Bill & Food Bill” Video Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA1E706EFA90D1767
Brad: Farm Bill Data Slides on SlideShare, http://www.slideshare.net/bradwilson581525
This project will be further refined over time, and additional material will be added.
On the top side of the price issue we need Reserves and Price Ceilings: so see my “Food Crisis Primer,” coming soon.
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