AGEC 4603 Lecture : External Factors Article- Lecture Notes
Document Summary
External factors that will drive the next farm bill debate. Keywords: farm bill, federal budget deficit, congressional budget office, political stakeholders, house agriculture. This article is part of a series of policy issues articles on the 2012 farm bill. Environment of the next farm bill debate, farm bill stakeholders: competitors or collaborators?, trade issues in the 2012 farm bill, and food and nutrition programs in the next farm bill as part of this theme. The range of issues covered in farm bills continue to expand far beyond traditional farm and commodity policy, a trend that started in the 1970"s with the arrival of nutrition assistance programs. This paper will focus on the key external factors that are generated within the united states, specifically the impact of the changing political, demographic, and budgetary environments. In recent decades, federal agricultural policymaking has largely been a bipartisan process.
