Farm policy
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shocks to our agricultural com
plex, policies will have to be
flexible enough to deal with the full
range of supply-demand im
balances that could confront us in
the years ahead. Past experience
with the shortcomings of long-term
policies geared to short-term
problems should alert us to the
importance of greater flexibility.
Flexibility needed
Equally important,
policymakers have to recognize
that farm policy cannot move
agriculture very far from the
market mainstream without
touching off -self-correcting
pressures. Agriculture has simply
grown to be too large a sector of
the economy and too closely in
tegrated with the rest of the
economy for policymakers to move
commodity prices and producer
incomes contrary to market forces
- without substantial costs.
Farm policy can and must work
to stabilize the sector from short
lived market extremes. But the
costs of policies that move against
market fundamentals for any
serious length of time have to be
carefully weighed against the
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intended benefits of such policies.
The costs are measured not only in
terms of government payments to
agriculture, but also in terms of
farm sector efficiency and com
petitiveness.
Similarly, if farm policy is
required to serve several in
compatible goals, it may end up
not serving any of those goals
effectively. If the goal, for
example, is to promote efficiency
and competitiveness of our farm
sector, it cannot at the same time
guarantee viability to farms that
are not viable. This is not to say
that social goals related to the
alleviation of rural poverty need be
subordinated to economic goals of
efficiency and competitiveness. It
is to say that income support
programs may need to be handled
separately from farm programs.
The policy options faced by
lawmakers are often expressed as
,two opposing extremes: large
scale management of the farm
sector by government, with the
sector insulated from the
marketplace; and an open
marketplace, with farmers
responding to market signals,
unprotected by government
programs.
In reality, the debate we face
ahead is likely to be one of which
direction we want to move toward,
rather than which extreme we
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adopt. Whatever the policy
choices, they will entail costs, and
in no case do fanners escape a
major share of the adjustment
burden. That’s true with current
programs just as it’s true for new
programs.
However, we have to recognize
the risks inherent in continuing
with farm programs and policies
that were designed for a stable
world one where farmers were
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