How Has Your State Fared Under the 2014 Farm Bill?

The 2014 Farm Bill made several changes to U.S. farm programs.  The most notable was probably the elimination of Direct and Counter Cycle Payment (DCP) and Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) programs and the development of the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs.  While work is already underway on developing another farm bill, we thought it would be a good time to examine how producers in different regions have fared under the current and previous farm bills.  (more…)