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A CRS report updated January 10, 2019 details USDA's trade aid package for farmers hit by retaliatory tariffs. The Market Facilitation Program offers per-unit payments on eligible commodities, along with food purchases and trade promotion.
Direct payments to farmers can sustain planted acreage and production despite lost export sales, limiting supply cuts that would otherwise tighten feed grain prices.
everycrsreport.comJan 10, 2019After 554 past neutral policy events, Soybeans moved a median +0.0% over 5 sessions (51% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.6%), and +0.6% over 20.
After 439 past neutral policy events, Corn moved a median +0.1% over 5 sessions (51% higher; middle half -1.3% to +1.2%), and +1.1% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
