Other
Commodities
NEW! Wool and
Mohair:
Provides
marketing loans or loan deficiency payments based on a loan rate of $1.00 per
pound for graded wool, $.40 per pound for non-graded wool, $4.20 per pound for
mohair and $.40 per pound for unshorn pelts. Producers may choose to place their wool
and mohair under loan and receive the established loan rate, or they may forego
putting their wool and mohair under loan and receive a loan deficiency payment
(LDP) equal to the difference between the loan rate and the prevailing repayment
rate. USDA plans to periodically announce repayment rates, adjusted for
current market conditions. Producers who place their wool and mohair under
loan have the option of either repaying the loan at the prevailing repayment
rate, or, if market conditions warrant, forfeiting the wool and mohair pledged
as collateral as full repayment of the loan.
T Corn, Soybeans,
etc.:
The new farm bill provides higher loan rates for most crops; Direct payments for
wheat, oilseeds, feed grains, cotton, and rice (previously called production
flexibility contract payments); and additional payments (called counter-cyclical
payments) to producers of these crops when commodity prices fall below target
prices set in the law. It also
includes an option for producers to update the bases and yields used to
calculate counter-cyclical payments.
Loan Rate
Direct Payment
Target Price
2002-2003 2004-2007 2002-2007 2002-2003
2004-2007
Corn (bu)
$1.98
$1.95
$0.28
$2.60
$2.63
Soybeans (bu) $5.00
$5.00
$0.44
$5.80
$5.80
Minor Oilseeds (lb)
$.0960
$.0930
$0.0080
$0.0980
$0.1010
NEW! Base Acres: Allows producers to
retain their current AMTA base acres and add oilseed acres, or to update base
acres using 1998-2001 acres planted and prevented planted to all covered
commodities.
NEW! Payment Yields: Allows producers
who update base acreage to the average of 1998-2001 plantings to update yields
for counter-cyclical payments. The update is the higher of 70% of the difference
between current AMTA yields and a full yield update based on 1998-2001 yields on
planted acreage OR 93.5% of 1998-2001 yields on planted acreage. Provides a Aplug@ of 75% of
the county average yield for years in which the actual farm yield is less than
the county average yield.
T Timing of Payments: A
producer could elect to receive up to 50% of the direct payment beginning
December 1 of the year prior to the year the crop is harvested, and the
balance of the direct payment in October of the year the crop is harvested.
For counter-cyclical payments, a producer can receive up to 35% of the
projected payment in October of the year the crop is harvested; an
additional 35% beginning in February of the following year; and the
balance after the end of the 12-month marketing year for each
crop.
NEW! Includes authority for LDPs on grazed
wheat, oats, barley and triticale. Provides for LDPs for the 2001 crop on
non-AMTA farms, and waives beneficial interest requirements for the 2001 crop.
Also implements a program of incentive payments to develop marketing
opportunities for Hard White Wheat.
NEW! Corrects USDA error to provide certain
producers payments that were undelivered for crop years 1998, 1999, 2000, and
2001.