# Market Facilitation Program Fails to Offset Trade War Losses for California Farmers | College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

> UC Davis economists found that two years of Market Facilitation Program payments covered only about half of California's net losses from the trade war. California received a smaller share of MFP payments than the US state average, despite incurring the largest welfare losses of any state.

- Date: 2020-12-17 · published 2020-12-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/49636-market-facilitation-program-fails-to-offset-trade-war-losses-for-california
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md), [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

The research highlights the lasting cost of tariff-driven trade diversion on US agricultural exports, but it does not identify a new price driver for feed commodities.

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| CORN | 2022-04-04 | [Title III Of The Farm Bill: Agricultural Trade And Food Assistance Programs](https://feedsoft.ai/events/41827-title-iii-of-the-farm-bill-agricultural-trade-and-food-assistance-programs.md) | +5.4% | -0.7% |
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| CORN | 2018-06-24 | [Trade wars leave farming as a casualty - Agweek \| #1 source for agriculture news, farming, markets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/64502-trade-wars-leave-farming-as-a-casualty-agweek-1-source-for-agriculture-news.md) | -1.1% | -3.7% |
| SOY | 2022-04-04 | [Title III Of The Farm Bill: Agricultural Trade And Food Assistance Programs](https://feedsoft.ai/events/41827-title-iii-of-the-farm-bill-agricultural-trade-and-food-assistance-programs.md) | +6.7% | +5.8% |
| SOY | 2019-12-12 | [Farmers receive $10.5 billion to offset trade war losses — APM Research Lab](https://feedsoft.ai/events/55565-farmers-receive-10-5-billion-to-offset-trade-war-losses-apm-research-lab.md) | +3.9% | +4.6% |
| SOY | 2025-07-28 | [Agricultural Trade: Supporting U.S. Farms, Jobs and Communities \| Farm Bureau Intel Markets \| American Farm Bureau Federation](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23746-agricultural-trade-supporting-u-s-farms-jobs-and-communities-farm-bureau-intel.md) | -3.7% | +3.8% |

## Sources

- agriculture.ucdavis.edu: https://agriculture.ucdavis.edu/news/market-facilitation-program-fails-offset-trade-war-losses-california-farmers

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