
POLITICO reports on 2018 farm bill provisions, including making cotton growers eligible for the Price Loss Coverage program and lifting the $20 million annual cap on livestock insurance policies for dairy farmers. The excerpt is truncated.
Expanded dairy insurance and cotton program eligibility could alter producer risk management, with minimal direct effect on feed prices.
After 93 past neutral policy events, Milk (Class III) moved a median -0.0% over 5 sessions (48% higher; middle half -0.6% to +0.6%), and +0.2% over 20.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
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.