Agriculture Policy

• Implications for Corn Prices

• Coble, K.H., A. Muhammad, "Incentive for poultry integrators to contract bio-secure producers and implication for government indemnification program," Presentation for the USDA/ERS PREISM Workshop, October 23, 2009.

This presentation addresses our research regarding the how government programs to protect producers for major animal disease risks are affected by industry structure, the nature of the disease, and whether the diseases has unique or general bio-security preventions. We conclude that one must account for the industry structure when designing policies that will induce desired risk management from producers.

• Coble, K.H., R. Dismukes and C. Arriola "Overlapping Protection and The Risk Reduction Effectiveness of Alternative Commodity Program Designs" Symposium Presentation for the AAEA Summer Meetings, Milwaukee, WI, July 2009.

This paper reports the result of analysis that examine the implications of the 2008 farm bill on cotton, wheat, soybean, and corn farms across the country. Representative results are examined on a county-by-county basis. In particular we focus on the risk reduction and payouts for the new ACRE program and how it potentially interacts with crop insurance.

• Impacts of the SURE Disaster Program on Producer Risk Management and Crop Insurance

• Farm Policy Brief