# Assessing Market Facilitation Payments in Hindsight and Implications for Future Policy - ProAg

> An analysis of the 2018 Market Facilitation Program estimates total payments of $8.47 billion across nine commodities, with soybeans making up 85%. It argues that the program compensated for tariff-related export losses and that a 2019 expanded version and possible future programs are likely.

- Date: 2019-09-26 · published 2019-09-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/57080-assessing-market-facilitation-payments-in-hindsight-and-implications-for-future
- Commodities: [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Payments that offset tariff losses help keep U.S. acreage and marketing from collapsing, but they do not restore export flows. Expectations of further aid may shape farmer planting choices and the outlook for soybean supplies.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SOY | 2019-10-07 | [MFP has implications for future ag policy \| Illinois Business](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56552-mfp-has-implications-for-future-ag-policy-illinois-business.md) | +2.2% | +0.9% |
| SOY | 2018-09-01 | [Market Facilitation Program: Impacts and Initial Analysis](https://feedsoft.ai/events/63527-market-facilitation-program-impacts-and-initial-analysis.md) | +0.1% | +3.0% |
| SOY | 2019-01-22 | [The Market Facilitation Program (Trade Mitigation) and the Government Shutdown](https://feedsoft.ai/events/61079-the-market-facilitation-program-trade-mitigation-and-the-government-shutdown.md) | +0.7% | -1.7% |
| SOY | 2019-04-29 | [USDA Extends Deadline to May 17 for Producers to Certify 2018 Crop Production for Market Facilitation Program Payments \| Farm Service Agency](https://feedsoft.ai/events/59568-usda-extends-deadline-to-may-17-for-producers-to-certify-2018-crop-production.md) | -2.8% | -2.8% |
| SOY | 2018-08-30 | [Federal Register
       :: 
      Market Facilitation Program](https://feedsoft.ai/events/63522-federal-register-market-facilitation-program.md) | +0.4% | +3.9% |

## Sources

- proag.com: https://www.proag.com/news/assessing-market-facilitation-payments-in-hindsight-and-implications-for-future-policy/

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