{"id":2305,"date":"2014-11-24T02:20:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:31:29","slug":"farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Face Important Decisions Under New Farm Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 Farm Bill implemented major changes to commodity programs for United States farmers. Under this new bill, there are numerous decisions that must be made by farmers in the coming months that will impact payments they will receive in the next several years.\u00a0 It is important for farmers to understand the decisions that must be made and be aware of the decision-aid tools available to help analyze the best decision possible for their operation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2014\/11\/harvest3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2306 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2014\/11\/harvest3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"harvest3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2014\/11\/harvest3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2014\/11\/harvest3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2014\/11\/harvest3.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Covered Commodities<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Initially, it is important for farmers to determine if their crops are \u201ccovered commodities\u201d under the bill, and thus eligible for payment. The following crops are covered under the 2014 Farm Bill:\u00a0\u00a0 barley, canola, corn, crambe, flaxseed, garbanzo, grain sorghum, lentils, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, peas (dry), rapeseed, rice (long grain and medium grain), safflowers, sesame seed, soybeans, sunflower, and wheat.\u00a0 Cotton is no longer a covered commodity under this bill.\u00a0 Cotton farmers, then, will not receive payments pursuant to the ARC\/PLC programs below, but are available for the STAX insurance program, administered by RMA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Decisions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are essentially four decisions that must be made by farmers in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reallocation of Base Acres<\/strong>. Under the current Farm Bill, landowners have the option to reallocate their current FSA base acres.\u00a0 This is an irrevocable, one time decision that will remain in place through at least 2018.\u00a0 Program payments are based not on the acres actually planted, but on the base acres on file with FSA, so farmers should carefully consider this option.\u00a0 Farmers may leave their base acres as they currently are, or may reallocate the distribution between the crops they have grown in the last four years (2009-2013).\u00a0 Importantly, although base acres may be reallocated, the total base acres may not be increased.\u00a0 Generic base acres, that is the old cotton base acres, may not be reallocated or expanded.<\/p>\n<p>Because cotton is no longer a covered commodity, base acres previously designated as cotton are now considered \u201cgeneric base acres\u201d and producers will receive payments on these acres if they are actually planted to a covered commodity. This designation of generic base acres to a covered commodity is made on an annual basis.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone involved in a farm lease, it is the landowner who makes the decision whether to reallocate base acres.\u00a0 The deadline for this decision is February 27, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Updating Yields.<\/strong>\u00a0 Landowners also have the opportunity to update their farm program yields.\u00a0 Like the reallocation decision, this is an irrevocable one time decision remaining in place through at least 2018.\u00a0\u00a0Farm program yields are considered in determining payments to farmers under both the ARC and PLC programs in the 2014 Farm Bill.\u00a0 Farmers have the option of utilizing the current yield numbers at FSA, or updating their yields to 90% of the yields for planted crops from 2008-2012.\u00a0 Basically, a farmer would want to update yields if he or she had good years from 2008-2012 and doing so would increase the yields on which the farmer is paid.<\/p>\n<p>As with the reallocation of base acres, this decision is made by landowners (as opposed to tenants) and the deadline is February 27, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ARC or PLC.<\/strong>\u00a0 Under this Farm Bill, the previous direct payments, counter-cyclical (CCP) payments, and ACRE are no longer available to farmers.\u00a0 Instead, there are two separate payment programs between which farmers of covered commodities must select:\u00a0 ARC or PLC.\u00a0 This is a one-time decision and whichever program is selected will remain in place until 2018 through the life of the farm bill.\u00a0 This decision is made by crop, by farm.\u00a0 This means that one farmer could, for example, place his or her corn field in the ARC program and his or her sorghum field in PLC.<\/p>\n<p>Price Loss Coverage (PLC) is essentially a counter-cyclical payment program that is considered to provide deep loss coverage. Payments are issued to producers when the effective price (greater of the national market average price or the loan rate)\u00a0of a covered commodity is less than the established reference price.\u00a0 For example, the reference price for grain sorghum is $7.05\/cwt ($3.95\/bu).\u00a0 If the effective price is only $6\/cwt, the producer will receive a payment.\u00a0 If, on the other hand, the effective price is $8\/cwt, no payment will be made.<\/p>\n<p>Ag Risk Coverage (ARC) is a revenue based, shallow loss program. Payments will be issued to producers if the actual county\u00a0revenue for a particular crop\u00a0is less than the ARC guarantee for the covered crop.\u00a0 The guarantee is based on 86% of the previous five-year Olympic average national farm price and county yields, and therefore will likely change from year to year.<\/p>\n<p>This decision must be made between November 17, 2014 and March 31, 2015. Failure to make a selection will result in the farm being placed in PLC beginning in 2015 and will receive no programs payments for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>A note for landlords and tenants:\u00a0 For anyone involved in a farm lease, please take note of who makes this decision.\u00a0 The ARC\/PLC election is made by \u201cproducers.\u201d\u00a0 Producers are defined as anyone sharing in the risk of production.\u00a0 For example, if a landowner and a tenant enter into a crop share lease, both the landowner and tenant must make a unanimous decision on which program will be selected.\u00a0\u00a0 If a unanimous selection is not made, the farm will not be eligible for 2014 payments and will be placed in PLC for the remainder of the 5 year period.<\/p>\n<p>If, however, a cash lease is used, the landowner is not considered a \u201cproducer.\u201d This means that the landowner would have no input into this decision, even though it would impact his farm for the next 5 years.\u00a0 For example, if the landowner and tenant had only a one year cash lease, which ended in 2015, the land would remain in the plan selected by the tenant through 2018 although the lease terminated and the tenant moved on.\u00a0 This is extremely important for cash lease landowners to be aware of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCO Insurance Option.<\/strong>\u00a0 Lastly, there is a crop insurance option called the supplemental coverage option \u201cSCO.\u201d\u00a0 This insurance is available only for crops that are not enrolled in the ARC program.\u00a0 This would include any crops placed in the PLC program as well as cotton.\u00a0 Crop insurance deadlines apply to this decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Texas A&amp;M Agriculture and Food Policy Center Decision Aid<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are several decision aid tools available to assist producers in making the above listed decisions.\u00a0 The Agriculture and Food Policy Center at Texas A&amp;M University has developed a decision aid that will allow farmers to enter their information and evaluate each of these decisions.\u00a0 The decision aid is available free of charge <a href=\"https:\/\/decisionaid.afpc.tamu.edu\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Additionally, Dr. Joe Outlaw has recorded a series of podcasts addressing these issues, which are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afpc.tamu.edu\/podcasts\/fpm\/\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In order to effectively utilize the decision aid, a farmer will need the following information:\u00a0 (1) FSA reported crop history summary report; (2) 2014 schedule of insurance for all crops; and (3) insurance actual production history (APH) report for all crops.\u00a0 The decision aid will also require basis information be included, but estimates of this information are available within the decision aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 Farm Bill implemented major changes to commodity programs for United States farmers. Under this new bill, there are numerous decisions that must be made by farmers in the coming months that will impact payments they will receive in the next several years.\u00a0 It is important for farmers to understand the decisions that must be made and be aware of the decision-aid tools available to help analyze the best decision possible for their operation. Covered Commodities Initially, it is important for farmers to determine if their crops&#8230; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2444,"featured_media":2306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm-bill"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Farmers Face Important Decisions Under New Farm Bill - Texas Agriculture Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Farmers Face Important Decisions Under New Farm Bill - Texas Agriculture Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2014 Farm Bill implemented major changes to commodity programs for United States farmers. Under this new bill, there are numerous decisions that must be made by farmers in the coming months that will impact payments they will receive in the next several years.\u00a0 It is important for farmers to understand the decisions that must be made and be aware of the decision-aid tools available to help analyze the best decision possible for their operation. Covered Commodities Initially, it is important for farmers to determine if their crops... Read More &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Texas Agriculture Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/texasaglaw\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-11-24T08:20:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-17T20:31:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2014\/11\/harvest3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1632\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1224\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"tiffany.dowell\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@tiffdowell\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@tiffdowell\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"tiffany.dowell\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"tiffany.dowell\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f44cbb97df9edaa18011b5258d733f73\"},\"headline\":\"Farmers Face Important Decisions Under New Farm Bill\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-11-24T08:20:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-17T20:31:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1179,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/files\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/harvest3.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Farm Bill\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/\",\"name\":\"Farmers Face Important Decisions Under New Farm Bill - Texas Agriculture Law\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/files\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/harvest3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-11-24T08:20:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-17T20:31:29+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/files\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/harvest3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/files\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/harvest3.jpg\",\"width\":1632,\"height\":1224},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/2014\\\/11\\\/24\\\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Farmers Face Important Decisions Under New Farm Bill\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/\",\"name\":\"Texas Agriculture Law\",\"description\":\"Teaching, Research, Extension and Service\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Texas Agriculture Law\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/files\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/TZIFRg5K_400x400.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/files\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/TZIFRg5K_400x400.jpg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"Texas Agriculture Law\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/texasaglaw\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/tiffdowell\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/tiffany-dowell-lashmet-0a718778\\\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f44cbb97df9edaa18011b5258d733f73\",\"name\":\"tiffany.dowell\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/texasaglaw\\\/author\\\/tiffany-dowell\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Farmers Face Important Decisions Under New Farm Bill - Texas Agriculture Law","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Farmers Face Important Decisions Under New Farm Bill - Texas Agriculture Law","og_description":"The 2014 Farm Bill implemented major changes to commodity programs for United States farmers. Under this new bill, there are numerous decisions that must be made by farmers in the coming months that will impact payments they will receive in the next several years.\u00a0 It is important for farmers to understand the decisions that must be made and be aware of the decision-aid tools available to help analyze the best decision possible for their operation. Covered Commodities Initially, it is important for farmers to determine if their crops... Read More &rarr;","og_url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/","og_site_name":"Texas Agriculture Law","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/texasaglaw","article_published_time":"2014-11-24T08:20:13+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-04-17T20:31:29+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1632,"height":1224,"url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2014\/11\/harvest3.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"tiffany.dowell","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@tiffdowell","twitter_site":"@tiffdowell","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"tiffany.dowell","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/"},"author":{"name":"tiffany.dowell","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/#\/schema\/person\/f44cbb97df9edaa18011b5258d733f73"},"headline":"Farmers Face Important Decisions Under New Farm Bill","datePublished":"2014-11-24T08:20:13+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-17T20:31:29+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/"},"wordCount":1179,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2014\/11\/harvest3.jpg","articleSection":["Farm Bill"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/","url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/","name":"Farmers Face Important Decisions Under New Farm Bill - Texas Agriculture Law","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2014\/11\/harvest3.jpg","datePublished":"2014-11-24T08:20:13+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-17T20:31:29+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2014\/11\/harvest3.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2014\/11\/harvest3.jpg","width":1632,"height":1224},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2014\/11\/24\/farmers-face-important-decisions-under-new-farm-bill\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Farmers Face Important Decisions Under New Farm Bill"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/#website","url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/","name":"Texas Agriculture Law","description":"Teaching, Research, Extension and Service","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/#organization","name":"Texas Agriculture Law","url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2023\/12\/TZIFRg5K_400x400.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2023\/12\/TZIFRg5K_400x400.jpg","width":400,"height":400,"caption":"Texas Agriculture Law"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/texasaglaw","https:\/\/x.com\/tiffdowell","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tiffany-dowell-lashmet-0a718778\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/#\/schema\/person\/f44cbb97df9edaa18011b5258d733f73","name":"tiffany.dowell","url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/author\/tiffany-dowell\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}