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Did the 1995 Farm Bill Address the Critical Issues? Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Larry Salathe
Larry Salathe*
Affiliation:
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC
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Abstract

In 1995, for the first time since the 1930s, the United States failed to pass new farm program legislation. The inability to pass farm legislation occurred despite bipartisan agreement that farm programs should continue the trend over the past decade of less government intervention. This paper discusses the sequence of events, the role of agricultural economists, the major issues, and the lessons learned from the 1995 Farm Bill debate. The trend toward declining government intervention in agriculture will require that the profession look increasingly to the private sector for solutions to the problems facing agriculture in the twenty-first century.

Keywords

agricultural policycongressional debateequityfarm programspolicy analysisprice and income support
Type
Invited Paper Sessions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , July 1996 , pp. 45 - 51
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1996

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