Farm Bill frequently asked questions: yield update

Jessica Johnson, Jim Jansen and Monte Vandeveer

Nebraska Extension Educators

Over the past few months, the Nebraska Extension Farm Bill education team has been on the road talking with producers about the 2014 Farm Bill. This is one of a series of articles clarifying some of the common questions asked at these meetings. This article will discuss updating yields.

Farmland owners will have the opportunity to update program payment yields for each covered commodity from their current counter cyclical (CC) yields. Yields can be updated to 90 percent of the farm’s 2008-12 average yield per planted...