@article{Hertel:131207,
      recid = {131207},
      author = {Hertel, Thomas W. and Tsigas, Marinos E. and Preckel, Paul  V.},
      title = {UNFREEZING PROGRAM PAYMENT YIELDS: Consequences and  Alternatives},
      journal = {Choices},
      address = {1990},
      number = {316-2016-7535},
      pages = {2},
      year = {1990},
      abstract = {"Program" yields for individual farmers are
utilized in  determining the amount of deficiency
payments individual  farmers receive. They
have been frozen since the 1985 Food  Security
Act (FSA). However, some farm groups are
pressing  for unfreezing these yields so that
actual yields could be  substituted for the program
yields when the actual yields  are higher.
This change would indeed lead to higher  deficiency
payments. However, it would also  stimulate
increased fertilizer and pesticide use  Ultimately
resulting in lower net returns to producers.
A  preferable approach would be to index
upward all producer  program yields by the
same amount.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/131207},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.131207},
}