"Program" yields for individual farmers are utilized in determining the amount of deficiency payments individual farmers receive. They have been frozen since the 1985 Food Security Act (FSA). However, some farm groups are pressing for unfreezing these yields so that actual yields could be...

Illegal drugs have enormous significance for world trade, consumer safety, and the social and natural environment. Thus, drug policy is one of the principal policy choices society faces as the new century approaches. Numerous skirmishes in the War on Drugs are being fought on an agricultural...

The U.S, sugar program Is under widespread attack. Vet it Is one of our most effective and cost-efficient agricultural commodity programs. It preserves the domestic sugarcane and sugar beet Industries and strengthens corn prices. It helps cut our historic trade deficit in sweeteners. And it does...