The 1996 Farm Act Increases Market Orientation

C. Edwin Young and Paul C. Westcott

Agriculture Information Bulletin No. (AIB726) 36 pp, August 1996

The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, a milestone in U.S. agricultural policy, provides new farm sector law for 1996-2002, fundamentally redesigning income support programs and discontinuing supply management programs for producers of many commodities. This bulletin provides a general overview of major changes related to production agriculture resulting from the commodity provisions, agricultural trade provisions, and conservation provisions of the Act.

Keywords: Farm legislation, the 1996 Act, FACT Act, agricultural programs, farm income, production flexibility contracts, dairy, sugar, peanuts.

In this report ...

Chapters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• Summary and Overview (contents, summary), 29 kb
• Introduction, 32 kb
• 1996 Act Redesigns U.S. Farm Programs, 85 kb
• Aggregate Impacts of the 1996 Act Relatively Small, 60 kb
• Sectorwide Impacts Mixed, 48 kb
• Glossary and References, 45 kb

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Updated date: August 1, 1996