date:Sep 29, 2018
payment yield.
It is not clear why an additional yield update was included in the House 2018 farm bill and it is less clear why it is on a limited regional rather than national basis. The final question is the impact of the offset provisions and whether farmers in counties that are unable to update yields are being required to pay for the regionally-limited updated yield by having payments eliminated on unplanted base acres. These questions certainly could have implications for the stalemate in