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2002 Farm
Bill Decision Tool
A Microsoft
Excel spreadsheet has been developed to identify which of the
four alternatives for updating acres and yields contained in the
2002 Farm Bill likely will result in the highest government payments.
The four alternatives are:
- Do not
update acres or yields,
- Update
acres, use program yields,
- Update
acres, use "70% Diff" method to update yields for
calculating counter-cyclical payments, and
- Update
acres, use "93.5" method to update yields for calculating
counter-cyclical payments.
More detail
on these alternatives is provided in a Farm Economics: Facts and
Opinion article (click here
to see the paper).
The program
was developed by William Edwards at Iowa State University. A database
of Illinois yields has been added so that the Iowa version is
applicable to Illinois.
Illinois
Farm Bill Decision Tool. Clicking on this
link will download the Illinois version of the Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet. Save the worksheet on your machine to maintain your
own copy of the Tool. The current version is 1.0. Future modifications
to the program will be placed here.
Iowa
Farm Bill Decision Tool. Clicking on this link
will download the Iowa version of the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Save the worksheet on your machine to maintain your own copy of
the Tool.
Description.
Clicking on this link will provide an explanation and example
of the Farm Bill Decision Tool's use.
Input
form.
Clicking on this link will download an Acrobat Reader version
of an input form. This form contains the information that must
be completed to run the Farm Bill Decision Tool. A Microsoft Excel
version also is available. Click here
for the Microsoft version.
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