Additional Information and Data Regarding FAPRI's Analysis of the House & Senate Farm Bills

Abstract

On March 4, 2002, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) released a comparative study of the impacts of the alternative farm bills proposed by the U.S. House and Senate. During briefings to staff of the Ag Committees, requests were made for clarification and additional detail regarding results published in FPWP 01-02. In general, the questions fell into three categories: WTO implications of the two bills, detailed impacts on farm income, and government payments by crop. It is the purpose of this document to provide the necessary detail to address those questions.