WASHINGTON — Stating that government agricultural support programs traditionally were intended to provide a safety net to help farmers deal with “large systemic risk issues” rather than “smaller fluctuations in income” that can result from “average weather and market events,” the American Farm Bureau Federation has sent a farm program proposal to Congress that is an alternative to earlier shallow-loss proposals.
A proposal to establish a “systemic risk reduction program” was approved by the AFBF board of directors as an alternative to “shallow loss” proposals that would provide government support after a region, or in some cases an individual farmer. . .
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