An Analysis of Farm Income Support Program in the 2014 US New Farm Bill

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-218
Author(s):  
Jeong-Bin Im ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Support Program ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Farm Bill

scholarly journals Effects of Farm Bill Commodity Subsidies on US Corn Production, Farm Income, and Market Price

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Hecht
Keyword(s):  
Market Price ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Crop Season ◽  
Corn Production ◽  
Farm Bill ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Corn Prices ◽  
Farmer Income

This paper outlines the effects of farm bill subsidies on corn farmers’ planting decisions, overall production, corn farmer income and market price of corn. The author utilizes a series of real and hypothetical market prices to demonstrate the particular combinations of subsidies that are available for corn farmers under varying market conditions. Research suggests that certain subsidies are theoretically capable of increasing production above normal levels when prices of corn fall below a certain threshold. However, in practice, prices of corn have not fallen below this threshold for extended periods of time, and thus this scenario has rarely presented itself historically. The author concludes that because they provide income support for corn farmers and create a safety net for corn prices, these subsidies represent an incentive in itself to grow corn over other non-subsidized produce. Thus, it is possible that corn subsidies have led to the growth of the industry over time by influencing the choices that farmers have made throughout history upon entering the market, rather than by influencing day-to-day planting decisions throughout the crop season.

scholarly journals Agriculture at a Crossroads: Ensuring Conservation and Income Support in the Farm Bill

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Amy Fredregill
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Harmful Effect ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Conservation Practices ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Farm Bill ◽  
Policy Alternatives

While most farmers take steps to enhance natural resources, times of low prices and high costs may create difficulties for farmers who wish to spend resources on agriculture conservation. Consequently, farming can have a harmful effect on natural resources. Because many farmers rely on income support payments, and most income programs do not require farmers to utilize environmental conservation practices, environmental degradation continues. To ensure adequate protection of water quality, soil quality and wildlife habitat, and to provide income support for farms of all sizes, politically feasible legislation is needed to link income payments with conservation practices. This article follows the outline of atraditional policy analysis to examine four policy options for the farm bill the Conservation Security Program (CSP), Flex Fallow, the Conservation Reserve Program, and conservation easements. The options range from conservative to liberal, with differing environmental and income impacts. Policy options for achieving these goals were judged using the following criteria: effectiveness in achieving conservation goals,' effectiveness in supporting farmer income,' political feasibility,' and strength of the linkage between conservation practices and income payments. Based on this analysis, CSP is the best option for the farm bill, because it is a compromise approach to achieving the goals of this analysis. This evaluation is presented as a policy analysis in order to provide a systematic technique for identifying solutions to current farm policy problems. The elements of a policy analysis traditionally include formulating a problem, identifying policy alternatives, forecasting the future, modeling the impacts of alternatives, and comparing and ranking the policy alternatives.

scholarly journals Two Social Protection Programs in Pakistan

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (Special Edition) ◽  
pp. 283-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ijaz Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Income Support ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Large Pool ◽  
The Government ◽  
Overall Effectiveness ◽  
Cash Grant

Pakistan has launched two far reaching social protection programs. The federal government’s Benazir Income Support Program has, at its core, an unconditional cash grant for the poorest households. Responding to the concern that this runs the risk of creating a large pool of permanent government handout recipients, the federal government has also launched an ambitious skills development program. At the provincial level, the government of Punjab is implementing skills development as social welfare in the four poorest Southern Punjab districts. The paper discusses the structure of the two programs, their success at reaching the poor and the monitoring challenges to assess their overall effectiveness.

scholarly journals Uncertain Subjects: Shaping Disabled Women’s Lives Through Income Support Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-103
Author(s):  
Sally A. Kimpson
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
Disability Income

This article provides a critical reading of one aspect of the “third mobilization of transinstitutionalization” (Haley & Jones, 2018), focused on how power is exercised through the B.C. government income support program (or the ambiguously-named B.C. Benefits), shaping the embodied lives of women living with chronic physical and mental impairments. I research and write as a woman living with a disabling chronic illness whose explicit focus is power: how it is enacted and what it produces in the everyday lives of women with disabling chronic conditions living on income support. I too have been the recipient of disability income support. Thus, my accounts are ‘interested.’ My writing seeks to create a disruptive reading that destabilizes common-sense notions about disabled women securing provincial income support benefits, in particular in British Columbia (B.C.), interviewed as part of my doctoral research. Despite public claims by the B.C. government to foster the independence, community participation, and citizenship of disabled people in B.C., the intersection of government policy and practices and how they are read and taken up by disabled women discipline them in ways that produce profound uncertainty in their lives, such that these women become uncertain subjects (Kimpson, 2015).

scholarly journals The Impact of the Direct Peanut Price Support Program on Farm Income and Government Cost

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inbum Song ◽  
John R. Franzmann ◽  
John F. Mead
Keyword(s):  
Market Price ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Price Support ◽  
Support Price ◽  
The Government ◽  
Parity Price ◽  
Operation Results ◽  
On Farm ◽  
The Impact

Two major programs — allotment-quota and price support — have been in force to support peanut farming since 1952. The purpose is to restrict production of peanuts while supporting the price of peanuts produced. Production is restricted through the allotment-quota program, determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and converted to a national acreage allotment. However, minimum national acreage allotment has been fixed at 1.61 million acres. The price support program provided that price be supported no lower than 75 percent of the parity price of peanuts. Under the programs, peanuts produced by the grower are sold on the market at the support price for edible uses and excess quantities are sold to the government at the support price. Peanuts purchased by the government are stored and later sold for crushing at the going market price. Because peanuts for crushing command a much lower price than the government acquisition price, the purchase-and-resale operation results in a net loss representing public cost of the peanut price support program.

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