Farm Bill

Net ImpactsMaps and Charts

showing farm subsidies in context

Iowa is the biggest

farm bill loser.

Read my blog: “First Ever? Map of

Farm Bill NET Impacts,”

http://zcomm.org/zblogs/first-ever-map-

of-farm-bill-net-impacts-by-brad-

wilson/

Subsidies in context:

Rice

The horizontal line is the traditional fair

price standard. Price Floors, originally at

90%, were lowered and eliminated. Prices

fell. Even with subsidies, farmers got less.

Reductions +

Subsidies = Net

As crop prices fell, farmers saw large

reductions in value, but then got subsidies

to compensate for part of it. The cornbelt

was reduced by $500 billion, net impact.

The Cornbelt nets

down $500 billion.

The regions that got the biggest subsidies, as

shown on USDA’s “Farm Program Atlas,”

http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/farm-

program-atlas/go-to-the-atlas.aspx#.U-

q8kyh0HCE also got the biggest reductions, for

the huge net reductions shown here.

dairy reductions: State

rankings

Dairy subsidies were even smaller than

crop subsidies, in comparison to value

reductions. Dairy is the canary in the mine

of the Farm Bill.

5 big dairy states:

Regional losers

When the five biggest dairy states are

combined, they net down $162 billion for

dairy alone. When you eat, farmers

subsidize you, net result. “Got milk!”

5 big dairy states:

Regional losers

When five big dairy states are combined,

they net down $162 billion for dairy alone.

The northeast: 9

smaller states

The states of the northeast grow fewer field

crops and are smaller in size and therefore

smaller in total impacts. They can have

large net impacts per capita or per farm.

Appalachia: 5 Farm

Bill Net Losers

Farm subsidies are just the tip of the

iceberg. What gets you is hidden below the

surface. It can be “titantic!”

7 Southeast and Delta

States

States and regions vary in the field crops

(farm bill program crops) that they raise.

Arkansas is a large rice producer.

Mississippi is known for cotton.

Commodity Crops in

context

These maps show the lie implied in USDA’s

Farm Program Atlas, which ignores the

huge reductions in prices and overall value

for the major field crops.

Crops only: New Farm

Bill Losers

Farm Bill ImpactsThe regions that are best

suited for raising field crops are also the

places that are most exploited by the food

and feed mills, CAFOs, exporters & others.

North and South

Plains: Losers!

Big subsidies are only the tip of the iceberg.

They’re used to blame farmers. Farmers

and consumers are divided and conquered

by the beneficiaries of cheap farm prices.

MOuntain states: farm

bill losers

Congress has hurt mountain regional states

too, by lowering and eliminating Price

Floors. Subsidies compensate farmers for

only a small fraction of the reductions.

Pacific states: Net

Farm Bill Losers

California is the biggest dairy net loser.

Even Alaska and

Hawaii are losers

Dairy is what registers in these states.

(Data comes from USDA-NASS:

Agricultural Statistics Annuals, various

years.

Subsidy reforms:

A False Solution

Erasing the yellow line does nothing to raise

farm prices. There is zero correlation

between rice subsidies and lower prices prior

to 1977. Restore Price Floors! (No subsidies

needed.)

Support

Farm JusticeMere Subsidy reforms

fail. They cause cheap

prices for junk food, cafos

& export dumping The

only proposals to fix

cheap food are those of

NFFC and NFU.