UNL specialist sees large gap in farm safety net in 2019

UNL specialist sees large gap in farm safety net in 2019

A University of Nebraska Extension policy specialist foresees a large gap in the farm safety net for crop producers in 2019.

Nebraska crop producers, for example, have received 500 to 600 million dollars in total payments on each of the 2014 through 2016 crops. But Brad Lubben says that support, most of it coming from the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) program, is quickly disappearing as the current farm bill expires.

“We’re somewhere less than 200 million this year and heading to much less than that next year,” Lubben says.

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