US Federal Debt, Interest Outlays, and the Farm Safety Net July 24, 2024 Carl Zulauf, David Orden, Nick Paulson, Jonathan Coppess, and Gary Schnitkey
Commodity Program Base Acre Update: Overlooked Issues June 12, 2024 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, and Jonathan Coppess
Are Changes in Cost of Production and Statutory Reference Prices Related in the House Agriculture Committee 2024 Farm Bill? May 29, 2024 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson
Cover Crops and Covered Cropland, 2022 US Census of Agriculture February 22, 2024 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, and Jonathan Coppess
State Shares of US Commodity Program Payments: 2002–2021 May 3, 2023 Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson
Farm Payments by Programs other than Commodity Programs and Crop Insurance: Third Pillar of the US Farm Safety Net April 5, 2023 Carl Zulauf, Nick Paulson, and Gary Schnitkey
Is Loss Ratio a Sufficient Measure of Crop Insurance Performance? March 27, 2023 Carl Zulauf and Gary Schnitkey
The Farm Bill in the CBO World: An Illustration Eliminating the Price Escalator to Address Statutory Reference Price Inequality March 20, 2023 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson
2023 ARC-CO vs. PLC Program Decision Indicator February 20, 2023 Carl Zulauf, Nick Paulson, and Gary Schnitkey
US Crop Safety Net Policy since 1975 as a Margin Safety Net December 9, 2022 Carl Zulauf, Michael Langemeier, and Gary Schnitkey
2014 Farm Bill Voluntary Base Acre Reallocation: Cost Assessment September 26, 2022 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, and Krista Swanson
2024 Farm Bill Dilemma, 1981 Farm Bill, and 2018 Farm Bill Price Support Adjustments July 6, 2022 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson
Effective Reference Price – Past and Future June 29, 2022 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, Nick Paulson, and Jonathan Coppess
Continuous Disaster Aid Programs in U.S. Agriculture: A Policy Discussion June 14, 2022 Krista Swanson, Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson
Continued Discussion of Disaster Programs in U.S. Agriculture: Interactions with Crop Insurance June 7, 2022 Krista Swanson, Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson
The Continuation of Disaster Programs in U.S. Agriculture: Emergency Relief Program June 6, 2022 Krista Swanson, Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson
How Related are Crop Insurance and Commodity Program Payments? April 6, 2022 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, Nick Paulson, and Jonathan Coppess
ARC vs. PLC: Their Different Policy Objectives and the Design of Commodity Programs March 16, 2022 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, and Krista Swanson
2022 Commodity Program Decision: ARC-CO – PLC Decision Indicator February 24, 2022 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, and Nick Paulson
Conservation Reserve Program’s Evolving Mission February 17, 2022 Carl Zulauf, Nick Paulson, Krista Swanson, and Gary Schnitkey
Policy Budget for Cover Crops and the Lesson of Crop Insurance January 27, 2022 Carl Zulauf and Gary Schnitkey
How Well Have Farmers Done in Choosing Between ARC-CO and PLC January 26, 2022 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, and Krista Swanson
2020 Commodity Program Payment Dashboard January 13, 2022 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, and Nick Paulson
Does December Cash Price Help Predict If ARC-CO or PLC Pays More Next Year? December 9, 2021 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, and Nick Paulson
2021 CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) Sign Up Dashboard October 25, 2021 Carl Zulauf, Krista Swanson, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson
2021 Commodity Program Enrollment Dashboard September 30, 2021 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, and Nick Paulson
The Evolving US Cotton Safety Net May 13, 2021 Carl Zulauf, Krista Swanson, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson
Case for Ad Hoc Assistance in the Presence of Commodity Programs: MFP 2018 April 29, 2021 Carl Zulauf, Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, and Krista Swanson
A Farm Policy Experiment: A Differentiated Rice Commodity Program April 8, 2021 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, and Nick Paulson
2019 Covered Commodity Dashboard and Implications for the Crop Safety Net February 18, 2021 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, Nick Paulson, and Jonathan Coppess
Using farmdoc Tools to Make the ARC-CO and PLC Decisions February 16, 2021 Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, Carl Zulauf, and Krista Swanson
The New Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) Crop Insurance Program November 24, 2020 Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, and Carl Zulauf
A Farm Policy Dilemma: Base Acres, Planted Acres, and Ad Hoc Payments September 23, 2020 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, Joe Janzen, Nick Paulson, and Jonathan Coppess
Trade and COVID-19 Ad Hoc Payments by Commodity September 16, 2020 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson
Revenue Loss Coverage and Other Farm Safety Net Proposals in an Era of High Ad Hoc Payments August 19, 2020 Carl Zulauf and Gary Schnitkey
Soybeans and PLC: Example of the Need for Better Equity among Program Crops July 8, 2020 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, Nick Paulson, and Krista Swanson
ARC-CO and PLC Payment per Base Acre – 2014 Farm Bill June 17, 2020 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, Nick Paulson, and Krista Swanson
Decoding Prevent Plant Acres for Corn and Soybeans November 13, 2019 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, and Ben Brown
The Case for Looking at the ARC-IC (ARC-Individual) Program Option October 29, 2019 Carl Zulauf, Ben Brown, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson
Assessing Market Facilitation Payments in Hindsight and Implications for Future Policy September 25, 2019 Carl Zulauf, Krista Swanson, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson
The 2019 Market Facilitation Program July 30, 2019 Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, Krista Swanson, Jonathan Coppess, and Carl Zulauf
2019-2020 Farm Program Decision and Fairness across Covered Commodities March 28, 2019 Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Krista Swanson, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson
Understanding the 2018 Farm Bill PLC Yield Update: Corn, Soybean, Sorghum, and Upland Cotton by State March 22, 2019 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson
2018 Farm Bill Reference Price Escalator for 2019 Market Year February 21, 2019 Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, and Krista Swanson
Understanding the 2018 Farm Bill PLC Yield Update: Which Program Commodities Have a Higher Update Yield at the US Market Level? February 20, 2019 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson
PLC Base Yield Updates – The Importance of Crop Rotation January 17, 2019 Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, Nick Paulson, and Krista Swanson