BRIEFING BOOK
NASDA's Financial Safety Net Proposal
Discussion
with Agricultural Organizations
December 15, 2000, in Little Rock, Arkansas
CONTACTS:
Leon Graves, NASDA President & Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Agriculture, Food & Markets
Rick Kirchhoff, Executive Vice President & CEO, NASDA
Charlie Ingram, Manager, Legislative & Regulatory Affairs, NASDA
Patrick Atagi, Manager, Legislation & Regulatory Affairs, NASDA
NASDA
1156 15th Street, N.W., Suite 1020
Washington, D.C. 20005-1711
202-296-9680 fax 202-296-9686
nasda@patriot.net
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- Tentative Agenda (December 6, 2000)
- Draft Financial Safety Net Proposal (NASDA & AgriLogic, Inc., Oct. 2000)
- Farm Economic Relief: Issues and Options for Congress (CRS Issue Brief for Congress, Oct. 2000)
- "With Low Commodity Prices,Government Payments Support Farm Income" (ERS Report, Agricultural Income and Finance Situation and Outlook, Sept. 2000)
- "More of the same' urged for costly U.S. farm plan" (Reuters, Nov. 30, 2000)
- "Economist Defines Farm Bill Needs" (DirectAg.com, Nov. 30, 2000)
- "Economists Call for More Government in Agriculture" (AgricultureLaw.com, October 25, 2000)
- Oral Testimony to the House Agriculture Committee concerning federal farm policy in Washington, D.C. (March-July 2000)
- "What is a Safety Net" (Agro Washington, Fall 2000)
- "Farmers Still Face Concerns in Booming Economy" (NCFC Cooperator, October/November 2000)
- Glossary of Terms
- The May 1999 Commission on 21st Century Production Agriculture Report--The report is a very large file (4.42 MB) containing over 100 pages. This file will take a considerable amount of time to download depending on the speed of your Internet connection. The Commissions report has been zipped (compressed) to make the file smaller. Please use WinZip, PKZip or some other compression software to unzip it. The Commission's report is in Adobe Acrobat format. In order to view this document, you will need the Adobe Acrobat reader.