NAWG Joins Letter on Planting Flexibility
May 24, 2002

NAWG joined several other commodity groups on a letter requesting favorable treatment for acres that were diverted from program crops to other uses. The letter pointed out that those who flexed acres into other crops were following the intent of the 1996 farm bill, and should not lose those base acres in the updating process for the 2002 law. Such a result would certainly influence planting decisions over the period of the new law, and interfere with market signals, which should dictate those decisions.

In addition to NAWG, the letter was signed by the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Barley Growers Association, the National Farmers Union, the National Sunflowers Association, the U.S. Canola Association, and the U.S. Rice Producers' Group.