Economic Analysis of Base Acre and Payment Yield Designations Under the 2002 U.S. Farm Act

Edwin Young , David W. Skully , Paul Westcott , and Linwood Hoffman

United States Department of Agriculture

关键词: base;    2002 Farm Act;    direct payments;    counter-cyclical payments;    production flexibility contract payments;    base acres;    program yields;   

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学科分类：农业科学（综合）

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来源: United States Department of Agriculture Publications

【 摘 要 】

The 2002 Farm Act provided farmland owners the opportunity to update commodity program base acres and payment yields used for calculating selected program benefits. Findings in this report suggest that farmland owners responded to economic incentives in these decisions, selecting those options for designating base acres that resulted in the greatest expected flow of program payments. Farmland owners with high-payment base acres, such as rice and cotton, held on to these base acres and, whenever possible, expanded them. Analogously, farmland owners with low-payment commodity base acres, such as oats and barley, switched to higher payment commodities whenever possible.