The crop insurance/target price overlap – a policy question

When commodity prices fall, growers may collect payments from crop insurance as well as deficiecy payments from traditional crop subsidies, says economist Carl Zulauf of Ohio State University in an analysis. The target price payments offset the deductible – the portion of a crop not covered by insurance. “Given that crop revenue insurance is a key,… » Read More

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