7 Notes
. The 1993 Farm Bill was 24 pages: “ 933 Farm Bill—Agricultural
Adjustment Act of 933 ,” National Agricultural Law Center, accessed March
, 0 8 , http://nationalaglawcenter.org/farmbills/.
3. 2014 Farm Bill came in at 609 pages: “Agricultural Act of 0 4 ,”
US Government Publishing Office (GPO), accessed June , 0 8 , https:
//www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS- 3 hr 64 enr/pdf/BILLS- 3 hr 64 enr
.pdf.
4. $800 million per page: ERS, “Projected Spending Under the 0 4
Farm Bill,” last modified January 6 , 0 8 , https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics
/farm-economy/farm-commodity-policy/projected-spending-under-the
- 0 4 -farm-bill/.
. better off giving farmers free insurance: Bruce Babcock, “Impact of
Scaling Back: Crop Insurance Premium Subsidies,” EWG, July , 0 ,
https://www.ewg.org/research/impact-scaling-back; Bruce Babcock, “Giv-
ing It Away Free: Free Crop Insurance Can Save Money and Strengthen the
Farm Safety Net,” EWG, April , 0 , https://www.ewg.org/research/giving
-it-away-free.
6. rate of return on retained premiums: US Government Account-
ability Office (GAO), “Crop Insurance: Opportunities Exist to Improve Pro-
gram Delivery and Reduce Costs (Table ),” GAO- 7 - 0 , July 0 7 , , https:
//www.gao.gov/assets/ 690 / 686 4 .pdf.
7. Insurance policies were authorized: Dennis Shields, “Crop Insur-
ance Provisions in the 0 4 Farm Bill (P.L. 3 - 79 ),” Congressional Research
Service (CRS), April , 0 4 , , http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content
/uploads//assets/crs/R 43494 .pdf.
8. prohibited the release of information: Nancy Watzman, “Farm Bill
Allows Congress to Keep Crop Subsidies Secret,” Sunlight Foundation, Feb-
ruary 7 , 0 4 , https://sunlightfoundation.com/ 0 4 / 0 / 07 /farm-bill-allows
-congress-to-keep-crop-subsidies-secret/; “Agriculture Risk Protection Act of
000 ,” GPO, June 0 , 000 , Title I (B), Sec. , https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys
/pkg/PLAW- 06 publ 4 /pdf/PLAW- 06 publ 4 .pdf; GPO, “Agricultural
Act of 0 4 ,” Title XI, Secs. 00 , 00 ; Ralph Chite, “The 0 4 Farm Bill
(P.L. 3 - 79 ): Summary and Sideby-Side,” CRS, February , 0 4 , 06 , http:
//nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/ 0 4 / 0 /R 43076 .pdf.
9. the government pays 62 percent: GAO, “Crop Insurance Opportu-
nities,” 0.
30. figured out how to be compensated twice: Anne Schechinger and
Craig Cox, “Double Dipping: How Taxpayers Subsidize Farmers Twice for
Crop Losses,” EWG, November 0 7 , https://cdn 3 .ewg.org/sites/default/files
/u 3 /EWG_SubsidyDoubleDippingReport_C 03 -min.pdf.