Price forecasts little help in picking crop subsidy program

Neither the futures market nor the government provide spot-on forecasts of crop prices in the long term, write economists Scott Irwin and Darrel Good at farmdoc daily ahead of the March 31 deadline for grain and soybean farmers to choose a crop subsidy program. The 2014 farm law gives growers two options; Price Loss Coverage with target… » Read More

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