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by Adam N. Rabinowitz and Walter Scott Monfort Click to download a PDF version of this publication. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released their Crop Production report on August 12, 2019. Their report forecasts 2019 harvested acres in Georgia at 590,000, down from 650,000 in 2018. The basis…
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by Adam N. Rabinowitz On July 25, 2019, the USDA announced the 2019 trade assistance payment rates for the Market Facilitation Program. We have published a policy brief that contains the following helpful information: Details of the county based payment rate and potential maximum payments by county for non-specialty crops. Most notably for Georgia this includes…
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By Gopinath Munisamy, Yangxuan Liu, and Adam Rabinowitz Click here to download the PDF version of this blog post. American agricultural and food producers have been caught in the middle of ongoing trade disputes between the United States and some of its major trade partners. Most trade partners – China, Mexico, Canada, and others –…
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by Adam N. Rabinowitz On June 6, 2019, the disaster aid package (officially known as H.R. 2157, “Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019.”) was signed into law. The bill contains substantial money that will aid Georgia in the recovery from Hurricane Michael, as well as addressing other disasters throughout the U.S. during calendar…
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By Yangxuan Liu* and Adam N. Rabinowitz* Download the PDF version of the factsheet. On December 11, 2018, the U.S. Senate passed the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). The U.S. House Representatives passed the same version on December 12, 2018. The President of the United States is expected to sign the bill…
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By Adam N. Rabinowitz Click here for a PDF version of this post. Last week Hurricane Michael ripped through the heart of Georgia agriculture, devastating the southwest region and destroying a significant amount of our farmers’ hard work. While government programs can never fully replace the loss, there are a number of resources that are…
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by Adam N. Rabinowitz and Yangxuan Liu Southern Georgia has seen a lot of rain during the month of May. The table below shows the precipitation and number of rainy days in 2018 compared to the average from 2015-2017 for four selected areas in southern GA. Precipitation in 2018 has been, on average, more than twice…
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by Levi Russell A new publication entitled “Surviving the Farm Economy Downturn” is now available online free of charge. The publication provides a general farm economy outlook as well as discussions of topics such as risk reduction, cost control, alternative crops, livestock sales during drought, crop insurance, ARC and PLC payment forecasts, stress and suicide,…
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by Don Shurley and Adam N. Rabinowitz We have developed a third publication in a series of fact sheets on the new seed cotton program. Included in this document is a little history of what happened with the 2014 farm bill that led to the development of the seed cotton program. We provide an example…
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by Don Shurley and Adam N. Rabinowitz This post presents a second fact sheet in a series of publications that briefly explain the basic workings of the new seed cotton program. Effective with the 2018 crop, “seed cotton” is now a covered commodity under Title I of the 2014 farm bill and eligible for PLC…