Changing Farm Structure and the Distribution of Farm Payments and Federal Crop Insurance - Softcover

White, T. Kirk; Hoppe, Robert A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477610472 ISBN 13: 9781477610473

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

The distribution of commodity-related payments and Federal crop insurance indemnities to U.S. farmers has shifted to larger farms as more and more U.S. agricultural production is done on those farms. Since the operators of larger farms tend to have higher household incomes than other farm operators, commodity-related program payments and Federal crop insurance indemnities also have shifted to higher income households. By 2009, half of commodity-related program payments went to farms operated by households earning over $89,540, a quarter went to farms operated by households with incomes greater than $209,000 and 10 percent went to farms operated by households with incomes of at least $425,000. Total Government program payments to U.S. farms were $12.3 billion in 2009. Total Federal crop insurance indemnity payments were $5.2 billion in 2009.

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About the Author

Kirk White has been a practicing witch for nearly thirty years. The past director of the University of Vermont's Parapsychology Program, he founded two pagan organizations, the Wiccan Church of Vermont and the Church of the Sacred Earth: a Union of Pagan Congregations. A longtime teacher of courses in Wicca and Witchcraft, White is also the founder and academic dean of Cherry Hill Seminary, a professional pagan clergy education program. He lives in Bethel, Vermont.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477610472
• ISBN 13: 9781477610473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 58