Washington Update: SURE Regulations/Disaster Legislation Trade/Climate Battles Ahead in 2010 USDA WASDE December Report on US Sugar Supply and

摘要

Regulations to implement the permanent disaster program (known as SURE) were poised for release by USDA in mid-December. Assuming the long-delayed implementing rules are finally released, next month's report will focus on the nuts & bolts effects. Already, others are beginning to see the inadequacies of the SURE program to address a wide-spread disaster. In the coming months, the hole left in the farm safety net will become more apparent. When a disaster program is built atop a risk management program that fails to cover the risks associated with the crops and conditions of every farmer, those with a viable crop insurance program will be clear "winners" and those without one good risk management tool will be virtually denied access to another.