date:May 14, 2013
mber on the Senate Agriculture Committee, something similar, called the adverse market payments (AMP) program, is back in as part of a bill the committee meets to consider tomorrow. The bill has a slightly less expensive version of agriculture risk coverage (ARC), a revenue protection favored in the Midwest. It also has a stand-alone revenue protection program for cotton in the crop insurance title of the bill.
The Senate's bill doesn't give farmers a choice between AMP and ARC. If those progra