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ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/USA/51 
17 March 2004 
 (04-1190) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
  
 The following submission, dated 11 March 2004, is  being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the United States .  The notification concerns domestic support commitments 
(Table DS:1  and the relevant Supporting Tables) for the marketing years 2000  and 2001 .  
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Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2000 
 
Current Total Aggregate Measurement  of Support 
 
Total AMS commitment level for period in  question Currency Current Total AMS 
(from Section 1 of Part IV of the Schedule) (from Section 1 of Part IV of the Schedule) (from attached Supporting Tables) 
 2 3 
   
2000  19,103.294 Millions of  US dollars 16,802.588 
   
  
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DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2000 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment – "Green Box" 
 
Agency and program, by measure and type (some 
agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  1999 2000   
  
(a)  General services: 4,738 7,693 8,554  
Agricultural Research Service (ARS)  
     Agricultural Research Service  
     Buildings & Facilities 
     Miscellaneous Contributed Funds 496 
23 
3 761
68
18816
51
20  
Research and advisory function.  Ac quires, maintains,  and disseminates 
information.  Includes National Agricu ltural Library Functions since 1996.  
Conducts research on a wide variety of topics, including soil and water 
conservation, plant and animal sciences, human nutrition, and integrated 
agricultural systems. 
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) 
     Agricultural Institute 
     National fertilizer development 
     Agriculture 21 Farming Systems 4 
53 
0 0
0
00
0
0  
Research and advisory function. Conduc ts research on problems related to 
agricultural development, environmental quality, and fertilizer material and 
practices.  Started in October 1992, Agri . 21 provides information about family 
farming and profitability using sustainabl e and environmentally friendly methods. 
     Pollution prevention/model site demo 0 0 0  Research and advi sory function.  A research prog ram aimed at helping chemical 
dealers and farmers prevent ground water contamination. 
     Waste management program 0 0 0  Research and advisory function.  Research on devel opment of efficient wetlands 
and of organic plant food and cattle feed from agricultural wastes (broiler litter), 
and other creative wast e management methods. 
Cooperative State Rese arch, Extension,  
and Education Service (CSREES) 
     Cooperative State Research Service 
     Buildings and facilities 281 
0 429
41448
34  
 
Research function.  Provides grants to state agricultural research  
establishments.  Particip ates in cooperative plan ning with state research 
institutions.  
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Agency and program, by measure and type (some 
agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  1999 2000   
  
     Extension Service 325 407 437  Advisory function.  Part icipates with state cooperativ e extension system on applied 
education, information, and technology transfer. 
Farm Service Agency 
     Conservation Pr ogram Technical Assistance 
      (revised July 2001)2 05 3 2 0  
Extension, advisory, and training service functions.  Revised data.  USDA agencies 
provide various technical se rvices to help producers participate in environmental 
and conservation programs, such as th e Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), 
Environmental Quality Incentives Program, and the Wetland Reserve Program.  
This entry has been moved into section (a), general services, since it is not a direct 
payments program.  The CRP data in sec tion (h) now excludes technical service 
outlays for 1995-2000. 
 
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 
     Conservation Pr ogram Technical Assistance 
     (revised July 2001)2 07 3 8 4  
Extension, advisory, and training func tions.  (See immediately preceding FSA 
note). 
National Agricultural Library (NAL) 
     National Agricultural Library 11 (see note>) (see note>)  
Research and advisory function.  Ac quires, maintains,  and disseminates 
information.  Outlays included in ARS,  above, since 1995 (appropriations were 
$18 million in 2000). 
 
Rural Business and Coopera tive Development Service 
(RBCD) 
     Agricultural Cooperatives Service 4 4 4  
 
Research and advisory function.  Pr ovides farmers and US DA administrators 
information related to cooperatives.  Begi nning in FY 1995, salaries and expenses 
were combined with other RBCD functions .  Outlays after 1994 are estimates for 
the cooperative services only. 
 
     Alternative Agricultural Research 0 5 1  Research f unction.  Provides assistance in developing new products from 
agricultural and forestry mate rial and animal byproducts. 
Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) 
     Salaries & Expenses  
     Buildings & Facilities  
     Miscellaneous Trust Funds   
308 
3 
5 589
10
13 
627
11
23  
Inspection/pest and disease control function.   
Protects animal and plant resources from destructive pests and diseases.  
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agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  1999 2000   
  
State programs for agriculture 
Regular annual outlays by states, net of fees and             
taxes3 
 
 
 
 
 
 2,196
 3,573 4,274
   
State governments provide a number of  generally available services. 
Includes extension, marketing, and rese arch.  Excludes state credit programs.  
Amount reported is net of producer fees and taxes paid for various services. 
Grain Inspection, Packers and  
Stockyard Administration (GIP&S) 
     Grain inspection salaries and expenses4 
     Inspection & Weighing Service 
 
 
     Packers & Stockyards Administration4 
          7 
(2)
9 11
(4)
1510
0
15  
 
Marketing/inspection functions.  Establishes standards. 
Provides for official inspection and implem entation of the system of standards for 
marketing.   
 
Conducts surveillance and investigator y activities to pr otect producers and 
consumers from unfair trade practices. 
Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) 
     Salaries & Expenses  
     Inspection & Grading of Farm Products 370 
1 600
4647
(2)  
Safety/inspection function.  Provides in-pla nt inspection to assu re quality of meat 
and poultry and the accuracy of labelling. 
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) 
     Marketing Services 
     Payments to States & Possessions  
 
 
 
     Perishable Agricultural Commodity Act Fund  
     Miscellaneous Trust Funds  
 
     Office of Transportation 34 
1 
4 
81 
2 42
1
7
106
0 52
1
7
119
0 Marketing function.   
Develops marketing standards and provi des news and inspection services.   
Grants to states for projects, such as  improving marketi ng information, and 
developing grading standards. 
 
 
Uses license fees to take legal actions against unfair buyer trade practices.  
Grading and certification services are provided on a fee-for-service basis. 
 
Marketing function.  Identifies transpor tation issues and provides information.  
Transportation function moved to AMS, above. 
National Sheep Industry Improvement Center 
     Lamb marketing and promotion programs5 05 0  
Marketing and promotion function.  No pa yments to producers.  USDA grants are 
made to national meat associations a nd universities to help producers market 
domestically produced lamb meat thr ough promotion, marketing training, 
advertising, and education.  
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Agency and program, by measure and type (some 
agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  1999 2000   
  
Economic Research Service (ERS) 
     Economic Research Service 
     Miscellaneous Contributed Funds  45 
0 58
068
0  
Research and advisory function.  Performs economic research and analysis for the 
public, Congress, and the Executive Branch. 
National Ag. Statistics Service (NASS) 
     National Agricultural Statistics Service 
     Miscellaneous Contributed Funds  59 
0 106
0103
0  
Research and advisory function.  Provides o fficial estimates of resource utilization, 
production, and prices of agricultural products. 
Executive Operations 
     World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB) 2 3 3
   
Research and advisory function.  Provi des economic information about current 
outlook and situation for commodity supply and price.  Combined with other 
executive operations in the Budget after 1994. 
 
Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) 
     Conservation Operations 
 
 
 
 
     Resource Conservation and   Development 386
26657
35640
37 
Advisory function.  To pr omote conservation of soil and water, NRCS provides 
technical assistance, conducts soil surveys,  and assesses erosion factors (formerly 
activity of “SCS”). 
 
 
Assists individuals and localities to develop area-wide plans for resource 
conservation and development.  Some cost-share payments prior to 1994. 
 
Departmental Administration 
     Outreach for Socially Disadvantaged Farms 0 4 4 
Advisory function.  Community-based orga nizations receive grants and contracts 
to provide outreach and technical assistan ce to disadvantaged farms.  Assists 
producers in the community in their farm  ownership and operation, and in their 
participation in government programs.  Funding shifted to Administration starting 
in 1997.  No direct payments. 
(b)  Public Stockholding for Food Security: 0 0 0  
  
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agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  1999 2000   
  
(c)  Domestic food aid: 19,158 33,050 32,377  
Food & Consumer Services (FCS) 
     Food Program Administration 
 
 
     Food Stamp Program 
 
 
     Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico 
 
     Special Milk Program 
 80 
11,813 
852 
16110
19,005
(see note>)
(see note>)115
18,295
(see note>)
(see note>)  
Food programs providing access to more nut ritious diets for low income people 
and children. 
 
Low income people receive financial assi stance to help purchase nutritious food. 
 
 
Food Stamp Program in Puerto Rico comb ined with Food Stamp Program (above). 
 
Provides milk service in schools and institu tions having no other federally assisted 
food programs.  Outlays reported in Ch ild Nutrition Program outlays (below). 
 
     Child Nutrition Programs 4,050 8,878 9,203  
Cash and commodities to assist children to attain adequate diets.  Includes special 
milk, school lunch and breakfast, hom eless children, and other programs. 
 
     Special Supplementa l Nutrition program for   
     Women, Infants, and Children 1,711 3,942 3,950  Food supplements to  improve health of low income  mothers, children, elderly. 
     Food donation program 
  189 144 137  Provides cash or commodities to improve diets of elderly, Indians, and Micronesia. 
 
     Commodity Assistance Program (CAP) 
 0 136 132  CAP includes these previously se parate programs: Co mmodity Supplemental 
Food, Emergency Food, assistance to Indian  Reservations and to Pacific Islands, 
and Nutrition for the Elderly. 
Commodity Supplemen tal Food Program 
 
 
Temporary Emergency Food  Assistance Program 
(TEFAP) 
 
 
Center for Nutrition Po licy and Promotion (CNPP)6 12 
48 
0 (see CAP, 
above) 
(see CAP, 
above)
2 (see CAP, 
above)
(see CAP, 
above)
2 Food supplements to improve  health of low income mo thers, children, elderly. 
 
 
Helps states to purchase and distribute food to the needy. 
 
 
 
Research and information function.  De velops and implements programs to 
strengthen nutrition research information and education.  Funded through the Food 
Program Administration Account after 1995.  
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Agency and program, by measure and type (some 
agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  1999 2000   
  
Human Nutrition Information Service (HNIS) 
     Human Nutrition Information Service6 9 (see note>) (see note>)  
Functions transferred to Agricultural Research Service and to the new Center for 
Nutrition Policy and Promotion.  Conducts survey of nutritional needs and diet 
possibilities.  Provides consultation and information to the public. 
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) 
     Section 32 (AMS) 378 833 543  
Funds purchases of commoditi es distributed to needy people through the FNS food 
programs described above. 
   
(d)  Decoupled income support: 
 0 5,471 5,068   
Farm Service Agency 
     Production Flexibility Contr act Payments (crop year) 0 5,471 5,068 
Payments made to producers and landowne rs based on acreage and production in a 
prior base period, as specified in the Federal Agricultural Improvement and 
Reform Act of 1996. 
(e)  Income insurance and safety-net 
       programs: 00 0 Note:  All revenue and income insurance programs are included in Supporting 
Table DS:9, as part of the entr y for USDA Crop Insurance programs. 
(f)   Payments for relief from natural  
       disasters: 
 1,388 1,635 2,141 
Farm Service Agency (FSA) 
     Non-insured Crop Disaster Assistance      
     Program (NAP, crop year) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Crop disaster payments (crop year)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 0 
1,33244
1,23973
1,834 
 
Under the 1994 Federal Crop Insuranc e Reform Act (Public Law 103-354), 
producers of crops not currently insurable under other programs received benefits 
if it was determined by the USDA that there have been yield losses greater than 35 
percent for the area, and greater than 50 per cent for the individual farm.  The area 
loss requirement was eliminated per Section 109 of the Agricultural Risk 
Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-224,  June 20, 2000).  The 50 percent loss 
requirement for each producer has been continued. 
 
Under the Food Security Act of 1985, the Disaster Assistance Acts of 1988 and 
1989 and subsequently, assist ance was provided to crop producers suffering from 
natural disasters.  Assistan ce could be provided when there were production losses 
of at least 30%.  1998 out lays authorised by the Omnibus Consolidated and 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations  Act, 1999 (P.L. 105-277, October 21, 
1998).  1998 amount for the green box is the amount for single-year crop disasters 
($1,341 million).  1998 multi-year crop disaster funds are reported in Supporting 
Table DS:9 ($577 million).  1999 outlays are single-year only, per the fiscal year  
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agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  1999 2000   
  
 
 
 
 
 
Emergency Feed Program 
Emergency Feed Assistance Program      
Forage Assistance Program 
 
 
 
Pasture Recovery Program 
 
 
 
Flood Compensation Program 
 
 
American Indian Livestock Feed Program 53 
7/
0
00
0 270
7/
0
0
41
4188
7/
0
18
1
7
 
 2000 appropriations act (Public Law 106-78,  October 22, 1999).  2000 outlays are 
single-year only, per the fiscal year 2001 appropriations act (Public Law 106-387.  
October 28, 2000). 
 
 
Compensates livestock producers for feed crop disasters. 
Compensates livestock producers for feed crop disasters. 
Compensates livestock producers for pastures damaged by drought or related 
conditions (1988 Disaster Assistance Ac t; Public Law 105-174.  May 1, 1998). 
 
 
Compensates for 73.5 percent of the doc umented cost of re-seeding pastures 
damaged by 1999 drought. 
 
 
Compensates farmers in certain eligible counties for loss of use of cropland or 
pastureland due to flooding in fiscal year 1998. 
 
Compensates livestock producers on tribal- governed land for feed crop disasters. 
 
 
Disaster Reserve Assistance Program 
 
 
 
Livestock Indemnity Program 
 
Tree assistance program 
 
 
Emergency loans8 0 
 
 
0
0 
 
3 0
 
 
4
7
 
260
 
 
5
2
 
13  
 
Compensates livestock producers for losses of  feed crops in authorized counties.  
Cash reimbursements provided for up to 30% of cost of feed replacement if county 
and producer both have losses of at least 40%. 
 
Compensates producers for livestock losses from recent disasters. 
 
Compensates producers for loss of trees an d fruit vines due to natural disasters 
(1988 Disaster Assistance; Public Law 105-174.  May 1, 1998). 
  
Provides loans to cover actual losses su stained by farmers in disaster areas.  
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Agency and program, by measure and type (some 
agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  1999 2000   
  
(g) Structural adjustment through  
      producer retirement programs: 0 00 
  
 (h) Structural adjustment through  
     resource retirement programs: 532 1,434 1,476 
Farm Service Agency (FSA) 
     Conservation Reserve Program (revised) 194 (1) 0  
Critical soil erosion is reduced through 10- year rental agreements to establish 
permanent cover crops on cropland.  F unding is being shifted to the CCC starting 
in 1996.  Revised in 1999 notification to  exclude related te chnical assistance 
outlays that do not involve direct payments  to producers.  Technical assistance 
now reported in section (a). 
 
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 
     Conservation Reserve Program 0 1,435 1,476  
 
Funding was shifted to the CCC, starting in 1996.  See above description of the 
program. 
 
     Dairy termination program (FY pa yments) 338 0 0  Payments were made to producers agreeing to terminate production 
for a 5-year period. 
(i) Structural adjustment through  
     investment aids: 132 134 132 
Farm Service Agency (FSA) 
     Farm Credit Programs  
     (previously FmHA programs)8 
 
 
 
     State Mediation Grants 
 
 
 
 
 
 132 
0
 132
2130
2  
Program includes (i) short-term and long-term  loans made at preferential interest 
rates and (ii) guarantees of private loans.  Eligibility (clearly defined in 
regulations) determined by status as owner-operator of  a family-sized farm in 
situations of structural disadvanta ge (cannot obtain cr edit elsewhere). 
 
Grants provided to states to assist producers having probl ems meeting credit 
obligations.  Assistance must be provi ded through certified agricultural loan 
mediation programs. 
 
  
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agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  1999 2000   
  
(j)  Environmental payments: 202 332 309  
Farm Service Agency (FSA) 
     Agricultural Conservation Program9 
 
     Emergency Conservation Program 
 
 
     Soil and water loans program8 
  
Natural Resource Conservation Service  
     Great Plains Conservation Program
9 
 
 
     Colorado River Basin Salinity Control9 
 
     Water Bank Program 166
6 
0
19
2
911
40
0
 
 
2
1
64
65
0
3
1
6  
Conservation of soil and water is achie ved through cost-share agreements. 
 
Assists in funding emergency conservation measures necessary to restore farmland 
damaged by natural disasters. 
 
Low interest loans and loan guarantees to assist farmers to use sound soil and 
water conserva tion practices. 
 
 
Cost share contracts for 3 to 10 years ar e used to help landowners implement long 
term conservation measures. 
 
Water quality for down stream users is enhanced by information/cost sharing. 
 
Conservation of wetlands is achieved th rough 10-year contracts with producers. 
 
     Wetland Reserve Program (also see CCC part) 
 
 
      Farms for the Future 
 
 0
0 
14
07
0
   
Conservation and restoration of wetla nds through long-term agreements.  
Producers must implement a conservation plan and retire crop acreage base. 
 
Provides loan guarantees and interest assist ance to State trust funds to help finance 
programs to protect and pres erve farmland.  Program authority expired September 
30, 1996. 
 
     Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program 0 11 8  Provides technical assistance and cost-share assist ance to landowners to develop 
habitat for upland wildlife, wetlands wildlife, endangered species, fish, and other 
wildlife.  Funds come from CCC under 5-10 year  contracts.  (Title III, Public Law 
104-127, April 4, 1996). 
 
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 
     Wetland Reserve Program (also see NRCS part) 0 148 113  
Conservation and restoration of wetla nds through long-term agreements.  
Producers must implement a conservation plan  and retire crop acreage base.  The 
1996 Farm Act authorized CCC funding star ting in 1997 (Title II I, Public Law 
104-127, April 1996).  
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Agency and program, by measure and type (some 
agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  1999 2000   
  
     Farmland Protection Program 
 
   0 7 7  Conservation plans are made and easements  purchased through State, tribe or local 
government agencies to protect topsoil by limiting conversion to non-agricultural 
uses.  Conservation plans must be carried  out over the 30 years or more of the 
easement term.  Authorized by the 1996 Fa rm Act (Public Law 104-127, April 4, 
1996). 
 
      Environmental Quality Incentives Pr ogram (EQIP) 0 92 95 Encourages farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that reduce envir onmental and 
resource problems.  Half of the funds  are targeted to livestock production 
practices.  Authorized by the 1996 Fa rm Act (Public Law 104-127, April 4, 1996). 
 
(k)  Payments under Regional  Assistance Programs: 0 0 0  
(l)  Other: 0 0 0  
Grand Total 26,151 49,749 50,057  
Footnotes : 
1 Unless otherwise specified, data are outlays for fiscal years.  Ou tlays were excluded from domestic  U.S. tables if not related directly to internal support of producti on agriculture.  Wages and salaries and 
administrative expenses were excluded ex cept where such outlays reflect the leve l of services provided to agriculture. 
2 In providing technical assistance, USDA agen cies explain and determine eligibility for conservation programs,  help develop indi vidual conservation plans, help install a pproved practices, provide information and 
educational assistance, and consult with uni versities and other government agencies.  Th e Farm Service Agency data relate only to participation in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).  The Farm Service 
Agency’s 1986-88 entry for the CRP in section (h) still includes technical assistance outlays.  The Commodity Credit Corporatio n data for 1999 relate to participation in  the CRP, Environmental Quality Incentives 
Program, the Wetland Reserve Program, and the Farmland Protection Program. 
3 Fees and taxes were estimated from partia l data for 1986, 1987, and 1995 to 2000.  Co mplete data availabl e for 1988-92.  Source  is Bureau of the Census’ Census of Governments. 
4 Outlays for Grain Inspection and Packers and Stockyards were comb ined in the Budget document.  Outlays for each separately esti mated from appropriations. 
5 These market and promotion activities are part of an overall pr ogram of assistance to sheep and lamb producers facing a surge o f low-priced imported lamb meat.  The National Sheep Industry Improvement 
Center is being used to fund industry applicants’ proposals for grants using cooperative agreements with the USDA’s Agricultura l Marketing Service.  The overall program of assistance includes $68 million over 
four years to improve production (notified in supporting table DS :6), plus funds made available to other USDA green box program s related to animal health, farm credit to structurally disadvantaged producers, 
and domestic food assistance.  The program  details were announced on January 13, 2000. 
6 Former Human Nutrition Information Service fu nctions were transferred to  the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the new Ce nter for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Food and Consumer Service Agency 
(FCSA). 
7 Value of subsidy on feed distributed under the Emergency Feed A ssistance Program is unavailable.  Pounds of feed so distributed  were (lbs.):  1,880,009 for FY 86; 4,678,875 for FY 87; 316,893,702 for FY 88; 
and 820,944,327 for FY 89.  There were 829,538 lbs. distributed in  FY 1995 and 162,000 lbs. distributed in FY 1996.  There is n o feed distribution under this program  after FY 1996, as the program was 
suspended through 2002 by the Federal Agriculture Im provement and Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-127).  
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 Page 138 Derived as the difference between FmHA and commercial interest ra tes times the value of loans made  during the year.  Data also include budget outlays for recognized lo sses on FmHA loan guarantees.   Farm 
Credit System (FCS) programs are not include d because loans are not subsidized.  The Farm Credit Amendments Act of 1986 forbids  the FCS from under pricing its competition.  Also, the FCS interest rates are 
greater than commercial rates, after adjusting announced rates for the mandatory stock purchase requirement paid by borrowers w ithout compensation. 
9 The functions of the following programs are combined after 1995 into a new program called the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP, see CCC, above) under th e Federal Agriculture Improvement 
and Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 106-127) : Agriculture Conservation Program, Great Plains Conservation Program, Water Quality  Incentives Program, and Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program.   
Separate funding for EQIP was also provided starting in 1997. 
  
Public Law References
 
 Public Law 99-198, Food Security Act of 1985 (December 23, 1985). 
 
Public Law 100-387, Disaster Assi stance Act of 1988 (August 11, 1988). 
 Public Law 101-82, Disaster Assi stance Act of 1989 (August 14, 1989). 
 
Public Law 103-354, Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department  of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (October 4, 1994). 
 
Public Law 104-127, The Federal Agriculture Impr ovement and Reform Act of 1996 (April 4, 1996). 
 Public Law 105-174, 1998 Supplemental  Appropriations and Rescissions  Act, Title II: Emergency S upplemental Appropriations – Cha pter 1: Department of Agriculture (May 1, 1998). 
 
Public Law 105-277, Department of Transpor tation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, Title  XI: Emergency and Market Loss Assistance (October 21, 1998). 
 
Public Law 106-78, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Ag encies Appropriations Act, 2000,  Title VIII: Emergency and Disaster  Assistance for Producers (October 22, 
1999).  
Public Law 106-224, Agricultural Risk Pr otection Act of 2000, Title I, Crop In surance, Section 109 (June 22, 2000). 
 Public Law 106-387, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Ag encies Appropriations Act, 2001 , Title VIII: Natural Disaster Assistance and Other Emergency 
Appropriations (October 28, 2000). 
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Supporting Table DS:3 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2000 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment – Di rect payments under production-limiting programs 
 
Measure Type Name and description of measur e with reference to criteria in Article 6:5 Monetary value of measure in year in 
question 
(million dollars) Data sources 
1 2 3 4 
(a)  Payments based on fixed area and yields. 
 NA  
(b)  Payments based on 85 per cent or less of base level of production:   
Wheat NA 1 
Rice NA 1 
Corn NA 1 
Sorghum NA 1 
Barley NA 1 
Oats NA 1 
Cotton NA 1 
 
(c)  Livestock payments on a fixed number of head  
NA  
NA = not applicable. 
 
1 Deficiency payments, included here for 1995, were eliminated for all years after 1995 by the Federal Agriculture Improvement a nd Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-127, April 4, 
1996).   
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DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2000 
 
Calculation of the Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support 
 
Description of basic products including 
non-product-specific (AMS) Calculated AMS Value of production Current Total AMS 
  
Mil. dol. Amount1 
Mil. dol. 5 per cent of value 
Mil. dol.  
Mil. dol. 
1 2 3 4 5 
 
Product-specific AMS  (from Supporting Tables DS:5 to DS:7) 
 
Apples 175.112 1,325.641  66.282 175.112 
Apricots 2.007 32.346  1.617 2.007 Barley 69.759 649.130  32.457 69.759 Beef and Veal 0.000 28,391.942  1,419.597
2 
Corn 2,756.663 18,499.002  924.950 2,756.663 Cotton 1,049.753 4,928. 217  246.411 1,049.753 
Cranberries 0.000 96.211  4.811
                                         2 
Dairy 5,070.354 20,770. 589  1,038.529 5,070.354 
Hogs and pigs 0.000 10,817.518  540.8762 
Honey 29.199 132.742  6.637 29.199 
Minor Oil Seed:   
    Canola 82.332 133.994  6.700 82.332 
    Crambe 1.545 3.718  0.186 1.545 
    Flaxseed 24.696 35.569  1.778 24.696  
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Description of basic products including 
non-product-specific (AMS) Calculated AMS Value of production Current Total AMS 
  
Mil. dol. Amount1 
Mil. dol. 5 per cent of value 
Mil. dol.  
Mil. dol. 
1 2 3 4 5 
 
Product-specific AMS  (from Supporting Tables DS:5 to DS:7) 
 
    Mustard Seed 0.297 3.739  0.187 0.297 
    Rapeseed 0.133 0.560  0.028 0.133 
    Safflower 3.169 29.878  1.494 3.169 
    Sesame 0.115 2.105  0.105 0.115 
    Sunflower 161.346 246.869  12.343                        161.346 
Mohair 2.251 10.609  0.530 2.251 
Oats 44.740 175.797  8.790 44.740 Onions 10.000 736.369  36.818
                                        2 
Peaches 6.562 489.116  24.456                                         2 
Peanuts 437.679 896.097  44.805 437.679 Pears 3.143  250.273  12.514  
2 
Potatoes 25.707  2,591.091  129.555  2 
Rice 624.393  1,049.961  52.498                         624.393 
Rye 0.000  21.830  1.092  2 
Sheep and lamb 10.000  361.231  18.062  2 
Sorghum 83.810  847.075  42.354  83.810 Soybeans 3,606.443  12, 466.572  623.329  3,606.443 
Sugar 1,177.486  2,054. 821  102.741  1,177.486 
Tomatoes 7.246  1,808.656  90.433  
2  
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non-product-specific (AMS) Calculated AMS Value of production Current Total AMS 
  
Mil. dol. Amount1 
Mil. dol. 5 per cent of value 
Mil. dol.  
Mil. dol. 
1 2 3 4 5 
 
Product-specific AMS  (from Supporting Tables DS:5 to DS:7) 
 
Tobacco 519.068  1,955.221  97.761                         519.068 
Wheat 847.193  5,782.107  289.105  847.193 
Wool 33.045  15.377  0.769  33.045 
All other (not in AMS calculation) 0.000  71,908.343  3,595.417  2 
Total for all commodities 16,865.246  189,520.316  9,476.016  16,802.588 
Non-product-specific AMS 
(from Supporting Table DS:9 below) 7,278.011 
189,520.316 
9,476.016  
2 
    Total: Current Total AMS 16,802.588 
1 Value of production reported by National Agricultural Statistics Se rvice (NASS), in general.  Ca sh receipts from the Economic R esearch Service were used for fruits and nuts, vegetables, 
horses and mules, aquaculture, and “other crops”, excluding cash receipts for some specific crops that are available as actual value of production in NASS reports. 
2 AMS IS NOT SUBJECT TO REDUCTION NOR TO INCLUSION IN THE CURRENT AMS BECAUSE THE CALCULATED AMS IS LESS THAN 5 PER CENT OF VALUE  OF 
PRODUCTION (DE MINIMIS EXCLUSION).  
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Supporting Table DS:5 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2000 
 
Product-Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support:  Market Price Support 
 
Description of  
product Marketing year 
starting … Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne) External 
reference price  
 
($/tonne) Eligible 
production 
 
(million tonnes) Associated 
fees/levies 
 
($ million) Total market 
price support1 
 
($ million) New notes, data sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
(4-5)*6-7 9 
       
Dairy   1 Oct. 2000   Price s upport/quota 218.258 159.826 74.916 4,377.477  
       Sugar   1 Oct. 2000   Price support/quota 374.786 230.824 7.869 1,132.826 
2 
       
Peanuts   1 Aug. 2000   Price support/quota 672.410  413.160 1.273 330.021 3 
      
All Commodities  
(before de minimis) 5,840.324  
1 Calculated with unrounded data. 
2 Reference price based on 1986-88 average Caribbean price adjusted  to include transportation costs of $28.66/tonne (28.66 + 202. 164 = 230.824).  Annual Caribbean price is the simple 
average of 12 monthly prices.  Applied administered price is th e announced loan rate for cane s ugar (18 cents per lb.) less the  1 cent per lb. penalty that must be paid if sugar is actually 
forfeited to the government. ($0.17 x 2204.622 = $374.786) 
3 Eligible production includes the domestic ma rketing (actual poundage) quota of 2,360 million lbs. plus the additional peanuts r eceiving price support through the buyback system of 
32.756 million lbs., plus the seed quota of 185 million lbs.  The support price is for quota peanuts only.  
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DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2000 
 
Product-Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support:  Non-Exempt Direct Payments 
 
Description of 
basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
  
($ million)
 Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
Apples 1 June 2000 Market loss payments  169.000    1 
  Quality loss payments          5.357    2 
  Subtotal other payments        174.357      174.357           
Apples 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments    174.357  
 
        
Apricots 1 June 2000 California Tri-Valley market loss  2.007  2.007  3 
         
Apricots 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments    2.007   
         
Barley 1 June 2000 Marketing loan gains  1.085     
  Loan deficiency payments  66.873     
  Commodity loan forfeit  0.181     
  Certificate exchange gains  0.597    4 
  Subtotal other payments  68.736  68.736   
         
Barley 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       68.736   
         
Beef/veal 1 Jan. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments  
       0.000    
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Description of 
basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
         
Corn 1 Sept. 2000 Commodity loan forfeit  7.668     
  Marketing loan gains  234.984     
  Loan deficiency payments  2,355.063     
  Certificate exchange gains  31.307    4 
  Subtotal other payments  2,629.022  2,629.022   
 
Corn  
1 Sept. 2000  
Subtotal all direct payments        
2,629.022   
         
Cotton 1 Aug. 2000 Marketing loan gains  52.733     
  Loan deficiency payments  151.703     
  User marketing payments  236.545     
  Cotton seed payments  184.594    5 
  Commodity loan forfeit  0.006     
  Certificate exchange gains  361.422    4 
  Subtotal other payments  987.003  987.003   
         
Cotton 1 Aug. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       987.003   
            
Cranberries 1 Jan. 2000 Market loss payments     0.000  0.000   
            
Cranberries 1 Jan. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       0.000   
         
Dairy 1 Oct. 2000 Dairy indemnities  0.022     
  Dairy market loss payment  672.550    6 
  Dairy production disaster 
assistance   
(0.011)     
7 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.000    4 
  Subtotal other payments  672.561  672.561   
         
Dairy 1 Oct. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       672.561    
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basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
         
Hogs and pigs 1 Dec. 1999 Small hog program payments  0.000  0.000   
         
Hogs and pigs 
 
 1 Dec. 1999 Subtotal all direct payments     0.000   
         
Honey 1 Jan. 2000 Price related direct payments  NA     
  Commodity loan forfeit  0.001    8 
  Marketing loan gains  5.425    8 
  Loan deficiency payments  22.624    8 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.777    4 
  Subtotal other payments  28.827  28.827   
         
Honey 1 Jan. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       28.827   
        
Minor oilseeds        
 Canola 1 June 2000 Commodity loan forfeit  0.070     
  Marketing loan gains  0.415     
  Loan deficiency payments  69.095     
  Oilseed payments  10.448    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  2.159    4 
  Subtotal other payments  82.187  82.187   
         
 Canola 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       82.187    
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Description of 
basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
Minor oilseeds            
 Crambe 1 June 2000 Commodity loan forfeit     0.000     
  Marketing loan gains     0.008     
  Loan deficiency payments     0.394     
  Oilseed payments     0.268    9 
  Certificate exchange gains     0.852    4 
  Subtotal other payments     1.522  1.522   
 Crambe 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       1.522   
            
Minor oilseeds         
 Flaxseed 1 July 2000 Commodity loan forfeit  0.078     
  Marketing loans  0.224     
  Loan deficiency payments  21.222     
  Oilseed payments  2.435    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.452    4 
  Subtotal other payments  24.411  24.411   
             
 Flaxseed 1 July 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       24.411   
            
 
Minor oilseeds         
 Mustard seed 1 Sept. 2000 Commodity loan forfeit  0.000     
  Marketing loans  0.000     
  Loan deficiency payments  0.000     
  Oilseed payments  0.294    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.000    4 
  Subtotal other payments  0.294  0.294   
         
 Mustard seed 1 Sept. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       0.294   
         
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basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
 
Minor oilseeds         
 Rapeseed 1 June 2000 Commodity loan forfeit  0.000     
  Marketing loans  0.000     
  Loan deficiency payments  0.100     
  Oilseed payments  0.033    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.000    4 
  Subtotal other payments  0.133  0.133   
         
 Rapeseed 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       0.133   
        
        
Minor oilseeds        
 Safflower 1 Sept. 2000 Commodity loan forfeit  0.000     
  Marketing loans  0.000     
  Loan deficiency payments  0.000     
  Oilseed payments  3.164    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.000    4 
  Subtotal other payments  3.164  3.164   
         
 Safflower 1 Sept. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       3.164   
         
Minor oilseeds        
 Sesame               1 Sept. 2000 Oilseed payments  0.115    9 
 Subtotal other payments  0.115  0.115   
        
  Sesame             1 Sept. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments    0.115    
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Description of 
basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
 
Minor oilseeds        
 Sunflower 1 Sept. 2000 Commodity loan forfeit  0.149     
  Marketing loans  5.660     
  Loan deficiency payments  122.474     
  Oilseed payments  27.520    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  4.352    4 
  Subtotal other payments  160.155  160.155   
            
 Sunflower 1 Sept. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       160.155   
         
Mohair 1 Jan. 2000 Support payments      10 
  Subtotal price related payments NA   0.000   
         
Mohair 1 Jan. 2000 Market loss payments  2.033    10 
  Subtotal other payments  2.033  2.033   
         
Mohair 1 Jan. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       2.033   
         
Oats 1 June 2000 Marketing loan gains  0.334     
  Loan deficiency payments  44.247     
  Commodity loan forfeit  0.019     
  Certificate exchange gains  0.028    4 
  Subtotal other payments  44.628 0.000 44.628   
         
Oats 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments    44.628    
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basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
         
Onions 1 April 2000 Market loss assistance  10.000  10.000  1 
Onions 1 April 2000 Subtotal all direct payments    10.000   
Peaches 1 June 2000 California Tri-Valley market loss  6.562  6.562  3 
Peaches 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments    6.562   
 
Peanuts  
1 Aug. 2000  
Commodity loan forfeit   
0.000     
  Market loss payments  117.861    11 
  Subtotal other payments  117.861  117.861   
         
Peanuts 1 Aug. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       117.861   
         
Pears 1 June 2000 California Tri-Valley market loss  3.143  3.143  3 
Pears 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments    3.143   
         
Potatoes 1 Nov. 1999 Market loss payments  11.327    12 
  Quality loss payments  14.380    2 
  Subtotal other payments  25.707  25.707   
         
Potatoes 1 Nov. 1999 Subtotal all direct payments    25.707   
         
Rice 1 Aug. 2000 Commodity loan forfeit  0.046     
  Marketing loan gains  150.555     
  Marketing certificate payments  0.000     
  Loan deficiency payments  277.711     
  Certificate exchange gains  169.388    4 
  Subtotal other payments  597.700  597.700   
         
Rice 1 Aug. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       597.700    
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Description of 
basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
         
Rye 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       0.000  8 
         
Sheep & lamb 1 Aug. 2000 Adjustment  assistance program  10.000    13 
  Subtotal other payments  10.000  10.000   
         
Sheep & lamb 1 Aug. 2000 Subtot al all direct payments   
        10.000   
         
Sorghum 1 Sept. 2000 Marketing loan gains  1.048     
  Loan deficiency payments  80.857     
  Commodity loan forfeit  0.100     
  Certificate exchange gain  0.947    4 
  Subtotal other payments  82.952  82.952   
 
Sorghum  
1 Sept. 2000  
Subtotal all direct payments        
82.952   
         
Soybeans 1 Sept. 2000 Commodity loan forfeit  5.394     
  Marketing loan payments  249.719     
  Loan deficiency payments  2,279.175     
  Oilseed payments  876.613    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  33.197    4 
  Subtotal other payments  3,444.098  3,444.098   
         
Soybeans 1 Sept. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       3,444.098   
Sugar 1 Oct. 2000 Commodity loan forfeit  0.000     
  Sugar cooperative payment  7.184    14 
  Diversion payments  38.800    15 
  Subtotal other payments  45.984  45.984   
         
Sugar 1 Oct. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       45.984    
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basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
 
Tobacco  
1 Oct. 2000  
Commodity loan forfeit   
0.000   
   
 
  Market loss payments  471.154    16 
  Subtotal other payments  471.154  471.154   
         
Tobacco 1 Oct. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       471.154   
         
Tomatoes 1 June 2000 California Tri-Valley market loss  7.246  7.246  3 
Tomatoes 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments    7.246   
         
Wheat 1 June 2000 Commodity loan forfeit  5.610     
  Marketing loan gains  30.914     
  Loan deficiency payments  781.047     
  Certificate exchange gains  13.282    4 
  Subtotal other payments  830.853  830.853   
         
Wheat 1 June 2000 Subtotal all direct payments       830.853   
 
Wool  
1 Jan. 2000  
Support payments  
NA    
0.000   
10 
  Subtotal price related payments    0.000   
         
Wool 1 Jan. 2000 Market loss payments  33.045    10 
  Subtotal other payments  33.045  33.045   
         
 
Wool  
1 Jan. 2000  
Subtotal all direct payments        
33.045   
         
All Commodities      2000 
(before de minimis) Subtotal all direct payments     0.000 10,567.460  10,567.460   
NA = not applicable .  
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Page 28 1 Assistance payments were made to partia lly compensate apple and onion producers for lo w market prices.  (Section 741, Public L aw 107-76, and Sections 10105 and 10106, Public Law 
107-171). 
2 Apples and potatoes quality loss program compensates farmers who suffered at leas t a 20 percent loss in value for 1999 or 2000  crops because of reduced quality due to weather-related 
disasters (Public Law 106-387). 
3 Payments made to producers who were unable to market their apri cots, peaches, pears, or tomatoes because of the insolvency of an agricultural cooperative in California (Section 843, 
Public Law 106-387). 
4 Certificate exchange gain is the net gain to producers due to se ttlement of commodity loans at a rate that is below the origina l per-unit loan rate, where commodity certificates are used for 
the repayment.  First announced in February 2000, the authoriza tion for this comes from an amendment to the Federal Agriculture  Improvement and Reform  Act of 1996 (Section 812, 
Subtitle B, Title VIII,  Public Law 106-78). 
5 Payments to producers and first handler s of cottonseed (Section 204, Public Law 106-224 and Section 6, Public Law 107-25).  
6 Third year of emergency market loss payments to dairy producers (Section 805, Public Law 106-387). 
7 FY 2000 outlays paid as compensation for doc umented milk production losses in designate d natural disaster areas (Title VIII, Pu blic Law 105-277 and Title II, Public Law 105-174). 
8 Honey and rye programs eliminated by the Fe deral Agriculture Improvement and Reform Ac t of 1996.  Recourse loan program for hon ey for marketing year 2000 authorized by Section 
204, Public Law 106-224.  Honey loans converted to non-recourse lo ans with provisions for loan-related payments in October 2000  (Section 812, Public Law 106-387). 
9 Non-recourse loan and loan-related payments are mandated for 1996-2002 oilseed crops (Title I,  Subtitle C, Public Law 104-127) .  Additional oilseed paymen ts authorized in June 2000 
and August 2001(Section 202, P ublic Law 106-224 and Section 2, Public Law 107-25). 
10 Support payment programs for wool and moha ir terminated on 31 December 1995.  Mark et loss payment programs provided for 2000 i n October 2000 and August 2001(Section 814, 
Public Law 106-387 and Secti on 5, Public Law 107-25). 
11 Peanut market loss payment program provided for 2000 crop in October 2000 and August 2001(Section 204, Public Law 106-224, and  Section 3, Public Law 107-25). 
12 Payments provided by the Agricultural Marketing Service as comp ensation for diverting russet potatoes to charitable food insti tutions, livestock feed, and ethanol production (AMS News 
Release No. 078-01, April 2001). 
13 A USDA adjustment program, initiated in July 1999 to improve  competitiveness through production assistance payments, provides $68 million over four years under Clause 3 of Section 
32 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of A ugust 24, 1935, as amended.  Se ction 32 authorizes USDA paym ents to re-establish purc hasing power (Lamb Meat Adjustment Assistance 
Program FSA Fact Sheets, August 14, 2000 and April, 2002).  The Ag ricultural Marketing Service tr ansferred Section 32 funds to the FSA for program administration. 
14 FY 2001 (marketing year 2000) payments to an Hawaiian trans portation cooperative whose sugar-producing members suffered extrao rdinary market losses due to low prices (Section 
822, Public Law 106-387).  
  G/AG/N/USA/51
 Page 2915 The Commodity Credit Corporation provided 269,538 metric tons of sugar (raw value) to  producers who agreed not to harvest thei r 2000 sugar crop.  For the 2000 notification, these 
payment-in-kind (PIK) transfers were valued at the same per-uni t rate as the actual production that was included in the market prices support calculation in supporting table DS:5 ($374.786 
- $230.824) x (.269538 million tons) = $38.8 million).  This PIK dive rsion program is authorized by the Cost Reduction Option p rovision of the 1985 farm act (Public Law 99-198). 
16 Payment initiated to partially compensa te producers and quota owners for the reduc tion in the quantity of quota allotments fro m 1999 to 2000 crop year (Section 204, Public Law 106-
224, and Section 4, Public Law 107-25). 
 
Public Law References:  
Public Law 99-198, Food Security Act of 1985 (December 23, 1985). 
Public Law 104-127, The Federal Agriculture Improve ment and Reform Act of 1996 (April 4, 1996). 
Public Law 105-174, 1998 Supplemental Appropria tions and Rescissions Act, Title II: Em ergency Supplemental Appropriations – Cha pter 1: Department of Ag riculture (May 1, 1998). 
Public Law 105-277, Department of Transportation and Related Agen cies Appropriations Act, 1999, Title XI: Emergency and Market Loss Assistance (October 21, 1998). 
Public Law 106-31, 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, Title I: Emergency Supplemental Appropriations – Chapter 1: Department of Agriculture (May 21, 1999). 
Public Law 106-78, Agriculture, Rural Devel opment, Food and Drug Administration, and Re lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000,  Title VIII: Emergency and Disaster Assistance for 
Producers (October 22, 1999). 
Public Law 106-224, Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000, Titl e II: Agricultural Assistance – Subtitle A: Market Loss Assis tance, (June 22, 2000). 
Public Law 106-387, Agriculture, Rural Develo pment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Ap propriations Act, 2001 , Title VIII: Natural Disaster Assistance and Other 
Emergency Appropriati ons, (October 28, 2000). 
 
Public Law 107-25, Agricultural Economic Assistance Act (August 13, 2001). 
 Public Law 107-171, Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (May 13, 2002). 
 
Public Law 107-76, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 (November 28, 2001). 
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Supporting Table DS:7 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing year 2000 
 
Product-Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support:  Other Product-Specific Support and Total Product-Specific Support 
 
Description of 
product Marketing year 
starting… Measure type Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
($ million) Other product 
specific 
support 
 
($ million) Fees/levies 
 
 
 
($ million) Total other 
support 
 
 
($ million) Market price 
support (from 
DS:5) 
 
($ million) Non-exempt 
direct payments 
(from  DS:6) 
 
 ($ million) Total AMS 
  
 
($ million) New 
notes, 
data 
sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 
 9 10 
(7+8+9) 11 
    
Apples 1 June 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.755       1 
  Subtotal other support 0.755   0.755     
           
Apples 1 June 2000 TOTAL AMS    0.755           174.357 175.112  
           
Apricots 1 June 2000 TOTAL AMS                       2.007 2.007  
           
Barley 1 June 2000 Storage payments NA       2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 1.047         
  Subtotal other support 1.047   0.024 1.023    3 
           
Barley 1 June 2000 TOTAL AMS        1.023 0.000 68.736 69.759  
                      
Beef & Veal 1 Jan. 2000 Subtotal other support      0.000     
           
Beef & Veal 1 Jan. 2000 TOTAL AMS     0.000    0.000   
           
           
Corn 1 Sept. 2000 Storage payments NA       
2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 130.789         
  Subtotal other support 130.789   3.148 127.641    3 
           
Corn 1 Sept. 2000 TOTAL AMS        127.641   2,629.022 2,756.663   
           
           
Cotton 1 Aug. 2000 Storage payments 43.290        2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 19.480         
  Subtotal other support 62.770   0.020 62.750    3 
           
Cotton 1 Aug. 2000 TOTAL AMS        62.750  987.003 1,049.753   
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product Marketing year 
starting… Measure type Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
($ million) Other product 
specific 
support 
 
($ million) Fees/levies 
 
 
 
($ million) Total other 
support 
 
 
($ million) Market price 
support (from 
DS:5) 
 
($ million) Non-exempt 
direct payments 
(from  DS:6) 
 
 ($ million) Total AMS 
 
 
 
($ million) New 
notes, 
data 
sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 
 9 10 
(7+8+9) 11 
           
           
Cranberries 1 Jan. 2000 TOTAL AMS      0.000 0.000  
           
Dairy 1 Oct. 2000 Dairy assessments   NA     4 
  Northeast dairy compact benefit  20.316      5 
  Subtotal other support 0.000 20.316 0.000 20.316                
Dairy 1 Oct. 2000 TOTAL AMS        20.316 4,377.477 672.561 5,070.354  
           
Hogs and pigs 1 Dec. 1999 TOTAL AMS    0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 
 
           
Honey 1 Jan. 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy  0.482       6 
  Subtotal other support 0.482  0.110 0.372    3 
           
Honey 1 Jan. 2000 TOTAL AMS        0.372 0.000 28.827 29.199  
           
           
Minor oilseeds          
     Canola 1 June 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.146        
  Subtotal other support 0.146  0.001 0.145    3 
 
           
     Canola 1 June 2000 TOTAL AMS        0.145 0.000 82.187 82.332  
          
Minor oilseeds          
     Crambe 1 June 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 
Subtotal other support 0.023 
0.023   
0.000  
0.023     
3 
     Crambe 1 June 2000 TOTAL AMS    0.023 0.000 1.522 1.545  
           
Minor oilseeds           
     Flaxseed 1 July 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 
Subtotal other support 0.285 
0.285   
0.000  
0.285     
3 
     Flaxseed 1 July 2000 TOTAL AMS        0.285 0.000 24.411 24.696   
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Description of 
product Marketing year 
starting… Measure type Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
($ million) Other product 
specific 
support 
 
($ million) Fees/levies 
 
 
 
($ million) Total other 
support 
 
 
($ million) Market price 
support (from 
DS:5) 
 
($ million) Non-exempt 
direct payments 
(from  DS:6) 
 
 ($ million) Total AMS 
 
 
 
($ million) New 
notes, 
data 
sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 
 9 10 
(7+8+9) 11 
 
Minor oilseeds          
     Mustard seed 1 Sept. 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.003        
  Subtotal other support 0.003   0.000  0.003    3 
 
     Mustard seed  
1 Sept. 2000  
TOTAL AMS       
0.003   
0.294  
0.297  
 
Minor oilseeds          
     Rapeseed 1 June 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.000         
  Subtotal other support 0.000   0.000  0.000     3 
           
     Rapeseed 1 June  2000 TOTAL AMS        0.000  0.000  0.133  0.133   
 
Minor oilseeds          
 
     Safflower 1 Sept. 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.005         
  Subtotal other support 0.005   0.000  0.005     3 
           
     Safflower 1 Sept. 2000 TOTAL AMS        0.005  0.000  3.164 3.169  
          
Minor oilseeds                            
     Sesame                       1 Sept. 2000 TOTAL AMS      0.115 0.115 3 
 
Minor oilseeds          
     Sunflower 1 Sept. 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 1.197        
  Subtotal other support 1.197  0.006 1.191    3 
           
     Sunflower 1 Sept. 2000 TOTAL AMS        1.191 0.000 160.155 161.346  
           
           
Mohair 1 Jan.  2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.220       7 
  Subtotal other support 0.220  0.002 0.218     3 
           
Mohair 1 Jan. 2000 TOTAL AMS        0.218  0.000  2.033 2.251  
           
           
           
Oats 1 June 2000 Storage payments NA        2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.115        
  Subtotal other support 0.115  0.003 0.112    3 
           
Oats 1 June 2000 TOTAL AMS        0.112 0.000  44.628 44.740   
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product Marketing year 
starting… Measure type Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
($ million) Other product 
specific 
support 
 
($ million) Fees/levies 
 
 
 
($ million) Total other 
support 
 
 
($ million) Market price 
support (from 
DS:5) 
 
($ million) Non-exempt 
direct payments 
(from  DS:6) 
 
 ($ million) Total AMS 
 
 
 
($ million) New 
notes, 
data 
sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 
 9 10 
(7+8+9) 11 
           
           
Onions 1 June 2000 TOTAL AMS      10.000 10.000  
           
Peaches 1 June 2000 TOTAL AMS      6.562 6.562  
           
Peanuts 1 Aug. 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.404       8 
  Subtotal other support 0.404  10.607 (10.203)     3 
           
Peanuts 1 Aug. 2000 TOTAL AMS        (10.203)  330.021 117.861 437.679  
           
           
Pears 1 June 2000 TOTAL AMS      3.143 3.143  
           
Potatoes 1 Nov. 1999 TOTAL AMS    0.000 0.000 25.707 25.707  
           
           
           
Rice 1 Aug. 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 26.929        
  Subtotal other support 26.929  0.236 26.693    3 
           
Rice 1 Aug. 2000 TOTAL AMS        26.693 0.000  597.700 624.393  
           
           
           
Rye 1 June 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy NA       6 
  Subtotal other support 0.000   0.000     
           
Rye 1 June 2000 TOTAL AMS        0.000 0.000  0.000  0.000   
           
           
Sheep & lamb 1 Aug. 2000 TOTAL AMS      10.000 10.000  
           
           
Sorghum 1 Sept. 2000 Storage payments NA       2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.886         
  Subtotal other support 0.886   0.028 0.858    3 
           
Sorghum 1 Sept. 2000 TOTAL AMS      0.858 0.000  82.952 83.810  
            
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Description of 
product Marketing year 
starting… Measure type Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
($ million) Other product 
specific 
support 
 
($ million) Fees/levies 
 
 
 
($ million) Total other 
support 
 
 
($ million) Market price 
support (from 
DS:5) 
 
($ million) Non-exempt 
direct payments 
(from  DS:6) 
 
 ($ million) Total AMS 
 
 
 
($ million) New 
notes, 
data 
sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 
 9 10 
(7+8+9) 11 
           
Soybeans 1 Sept. 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 163.062        
  Subtotal other support 163.062  0.717 162.345    3 
           
 
Soybeans  
1 Sept. 2000  
TOTAL AMS       
162.345  
0.000   
3,444.098  
3,606.443  
           
           
Sugar 1 Oct. 2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 6.843        
  Subtotal other support 6.843  8.167 (1.324)    3, 9 
           
Sugar 1 Oct. 2000 TOTAL AMS     (1.324) 1,132.826 45.984  1,177.486  
           
           
Tobacco 1 Oct.  2000 Commodity loan interest subsidy 96.201        
  Subtotal other support 96.201  48.287 47.914    3 
           
Tobacco 1 Oct. 2000 TOTAL AMS        47.914 0.000  471.154 519.068  
           
Tomatoes 1 June 2000 TOTAL AMS      7.246 7.246  
           
Wheat 1 June 2000 Storage payments NA       2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 16.727        
  Subtotal other support 16.727  0.387 16.340    3 
           
Wheat 1 June 2000  TOTAL AMS        16.340 0.000  830.853 847.193  
           
           Wool 1 Jan.  2000 Subtotal other support NA  0.000  0.000    
 
           
Wool 1 Jan. 2000 TOTAL AMS        0.000  0.000  33.045 33.045  
                      
All commodities  
(before de minimis) 2000 TOTAL AMS     508.889 20.316 71.743 457.462 5,840.324 10,567.460 16,865.246   
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Footnotes : 
1 Loans to producers suffering low prices were provided in FY 2001,  treated here as marketing year 2000 benefits.  CCC interest r ates were compared to commercial rates and the difference 
applied to the value of the loans made (Section 203, Public Law 106-224). 
2 Program suspended after 1995 by the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (Title I, Subtitle F,  Permanent Pric e Support Authority, Public Law 104-127). 
3 Fees/levies include loan origination and re lated fees for most loan commodities, in addition to marketing assessments for peanu ts and tobacco. 
4 Dairy assessments terminated under provisions  of the Federal Agriculture Improvement an d Reform Act of 1996 (Title  I,  Subtitle  D, Chapter 1, Public Law 104-127) . 
5 Net additional benefits provided to dairy pr oducers at the subnational level by the “Nor th East Dairy Compact,” initially autho rized by Title I, Subtitle D, Chapter 1, Public Law 104-127.  
Program has been extended through September 30,  2001.   Since July 1997, users of Class 1 milk in the NE must pay at least $16. 94 per cwt. for the milk instead of whatever is the then 
current Federal Milk Marketing Order Class 1 price.  Producers receive part of this additional value after a number of deductio ns and additions are made.  The amount reported here is 
already net of the adjustments, so no separate “fee” is recorded. 
6 Honey and rye programs eliminated by the Fe deral Agriculture Improvement and Reform Ac t of 1996.  A new recourse loan program w as started for 1998 honey (Section 1122, Public 
Law 105-277) and reauthorized for 1999 (Section 801, Public Law 106-78) and 2000 (Section 204, Public Law 106-224).  The recour se loan program was converted to a non-recourse 
program with marketing loan gain provisions  in 2000 (Section 812, Public Law 106-387). 
 
7 Interest free recourse loans for mohair  were authorised for crops produced durin g FY 1999 (Section 1126, Public Law 105-277) a nd during FY 2000 (Section 801, Subtitle A, Title VIII, 
Public Law 106-78).  These loans extended into FY 2001, an the re lated interest subsidies were tr eated as benefits for marketin g year 2000 for the WTO notification.  There was no loan 
program for FY 2001 production. 
8 Peanut interest subsidy for 2000 based on da ta for all loans outstanding, as reported in both the CCC General Ledger and Financ ial Management Systems.  Th is includes data for producer 
loans and producer association loans, for both quota and additi onal peanuts.  Source is the Farm Service Agency, USDA. 
9 Sugar marketing assessments we re suspended for fiscal years 2000 and 2001 by th e fiscal year 2000 appropriations act (Public L aw 106-78).  Any actual or assumed fees related to the 
mandated sugar forfeiture penalty (Subtitle D,  Title I, Public Law 104-127) is already accounted for in Supporting Table DS:5 ( see footnote 1). 
  
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Public Law References:  
Public Law 104-127, The Federal Agriculture Improve ment and Reform Act of 1996 (April 4, 1996). 
Public Law 105-277, Department of Transportation and Related Agen cies Appropriations Act, 1999, Title XI: Emergency and Market Loss Assistance (October 21, 1998). 
Public Law 106-78, Agriculture, Rural Devel opment, Food and Drug Administration, and Re lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000,  Title VIII: Emergency and Disaster Assistance for 
Producers (October 22, 1999). 
Public Law 106-224, Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000, Titl e II: Agricultural Assistance – Subtitle A: Market Loss Assis tance (June 22, 2000). 
Public Law 106-387, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Ad ministration, and Related Agenci es Appropriations Act of 20 01.  
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DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing year 2000 
 
Non-Product-Specific AMS 
 
Measure type Non-product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays Other non-
product-specific 
support  
 
($ million) Associated 
fees/levies Total non-product-
specific support 
 
 
($ million) Data sources and comments 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
 
Irrigation on Bureau of Reclamation 
Projects in 17 Western States: 
 
Estimated water subsidies-      
 
 
1986  543.3   Estimate provided to the Honorable George Miller, Chairman, Subcommittee 
on Water and Power Resource s, 24 February 1988, by the U.S. Department of 
Interior.  This was in answer to the question: "What is the average annual 
irrigation subsidy provided through the Re clamation program?"  An answer was 
included for 1986. 
 
 Amount assumed for each year: 
 
1986 
1987 
1988 
1986-88 
1995 revised  
1996 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000   
 
543.3 
543.3 
543.3 543.3 
379.5 
379.5 
348.5 
348.5 
315.7 
315.7   
 
543.3 
543.3 
543.3 543.3 
379.5 
379.5 
348.5 
348.5 
315.7 
315.7  
 
Estimates do not exist fo r each year, so the 1986 estimate was assumed for 
1986-1988. 
  
Data for 1995 and 1996 have been revise d based on a new estimate for 1994.  
For 1997, a new estimate was calculated by  the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR).  
These calculations are based on a “d ebt financing method.”  A long term 
interest rate is applied to the outsta nding unpaid balance of capital investment 
by the Government in irrigation facilities to obtain the subsidy.  Irrigators repay 
the principal but not the interest on the project debt.  Estimat es do not exist for 
each year, so the 1999 estimate was assumed for 2000.  
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Measure type Non-product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays Other non-
product-specific 
support  
 
($ million) Associated 
fees/levies Total non-product-
specific support 
 
 
($ million) Data sources and comments 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
Net Federal budget outlays for 
grazing livestock on Federal Land 
  (fiscal year data are used) 
 
1986 
1987 
1988 
1986-88 avg. 
1995  
1996 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000 
 
Crop and revenue insurance 
subsidized by the Federal Crop 
Insurance Corporation: 
 (crop year data are used)  
 
    Indemnities paid to farmers: 
1986 
1987 
1988 
1986-88 avg. 
 
1995 
1996 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
49.600 
49.800 
48.800 
49.400 71.282 
72.422 
73.177 
73.454 
77.420 
72.726 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
615.742  
369.844  
1,067.611  
684.399  
 
1,566.522  
1,492.804  
991.261 
1,675.581 
2,432.192 
2,587.639 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
23.400 
22.500 
25.000 
23.633 26.285 
21.973 
22.369 
22.458 
22.487 
21.262 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
291.649  
277.506  
328.403  
299.186  
 
653.864 856.749 
872.106 
928.615 
918.098 
1,191.869  
 
 
 
26.200 
27.300 
23.800 
25.767 44.997 
50.449 
50.808 
50.996 
54.933 
51.464 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
324.093  
92.338  
739.208  
385.213  
 
912.658  
636.055 
119.155 
746.966 
1,514.094 
1,395.770 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
The data are net budget outlays for livesto ck grazing on public range land in 16 
Western States operated by the Forest Service (FS) and Bureau of Land 
Management (BLM).  The net budget outla ys include (as negative outlays) the 
receipts for fees paid by livestock pr oducers, but do not include other "non-fee" 
costs paid by the producers, such as fo r building and maintaining water supplies 
and fences.  Including the other non-fee costs could reduce the net outlay 
figure, perhaps to zero.  Fiscal year data are used. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Producers may choose one of the various  types of crop yield or revenue 
insurance plans made available each year.  The contracted-for insurance 
premiums are subsidized.  The value of th e subsidy is reflected in the net value 
of the indemnities paid to producers fo r losses less the amount of the producer-
paid premium.  Indemnities are paid whenever actual yield or revenue falls 
below the guarantee level. 
 
The chosen guarantee (coverage) level commonly ranges from 50% and 75% of 
the historical average yield or expected revenue.  Some new coverage levels 
have been offered at the 85% level.  This data also includes information for the 
Group Risk Plan (GRP), introduced in 1993, and the Group Risk Income Plan 
(GRIP) and Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) plan, both introduced in 1999.  
GRP and GRIP indemnities are paid when county-wide results fall below the 
guarantee level that ranges up as high as 90% of expected yield or revenue. 
 
  
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specific 
budgetary 
outlays Other non-
product-specific 
support  
 
($ million) Associated 
fees/levies Total non-product-
specific support 
 
 
($ million) Data sources and comments 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
      
Multi-year crop disaster payments 
1998 
1999 
2000 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
State credit programs: 
 
1986 
1987 
1988 
1986-88 avg. 
 
 
 
 
 
1995 
1996 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000 
 
Crop market loss assistance 
payments 
1998 
1999 
2000  
577.349 
0 
0 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28.661  
49.962  
51.172  
43.265  
 
 
 
 
 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
  
 
2,811.307 
5,467.670 
5,463.457    
577.349  
0 
0 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28.661  
49.962  
51.172  
43.265  
 
 
 
 
 
48.806  
48.806  
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
  
 
2,811.307 
5,467.670 
5,463.457  
The Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental  Appropriations Act, 
1999 (P.L. 105-277, October 21, 1998) included a provision (Section 1102) for 
making crop disaster payments conditional on having experienced multi-year 
losses.  As implemented, payments we re based on the amount of indemnities 
from crop insurance or non-insured assistance programs during 1994-98.  
Multi-year payments are reported here, along with crop insurance benefits, 
because eligibility was not based on the 30% loss criteria required for the green 
box. 
 
 
 
 
Various credit-related programs for agriculture are funded by State 
governments to: supplement Federal progr ams, promote the "family farm," 
assist during economic downturns, and promote new enterprises and 
technological innovations.  Th e data come from results of a mail survey by the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic  Research Service, reported by G. 
B. Wallace and others in "State Cred it Subsidy Programs for Agriculture," 
Agricultural Income and Finance Situation and Outlook Report, pp. 10-14 
(December 1990). 
 
Amount for fiscal years 1995-2000 are the la test available estim ates, based on a 
survey for fiscal year 1994. 
 
 
 
 
  
 
Producers who received fiscal year  2000 production flexibility contract 
payments (PFC) received additional ma rket loss payments (MLA) in proportion 
to the amount of their PFC payments.  This was required by the Agricultural 
Risk Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-224).  
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Measure type Non-product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays Other non-
product-specific 
support  
 
($ million) Associated 
fees/levies Total non-product-
specific support 
 
 
($ million) Data sources and comments 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
Emergency loans for seed producers 
 
1999 
2000 
 
 
 
 
Farm storage facility loan program 
1999 
2000  
 
2.918 
0 
 
 
 
  
1.392 
2.814    
 
2.918 
0 
 
 
 
  
1.392 
2.814  
 
Provides interest-free loans to producers of 1999 crop grass, forage, vegetable, 
or sorghum seed who did not receive paym ent for contracts with a large private 
turf, forage, and alfalfa seed company as  a result of bankruptcy.  The program 
was authorized by the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-224; 
June 22, 2000). 
  
Provides low-cost financing for farmers to build or upgrade on-farm grain 
storage and handling facilities.  Th e program is authorized under the 
Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act of 1949.  It was discontinued in the 
early 1980s and re-established in FY2000. 
 
Total non-product-specific  
Support: 
1986 
1987 
1988 
1986-88 avg. 
 
1995 
1996 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000 
  
 
 
694.003  
469.606  
1,167.583  
777.064  
 
1,686.610  
1,614.032 
1,113.244 
5,186.497 
8,030.398 
8,172.628   
 
 
543.300  
543.300  
543.300  
543.300  
 
379.498 
379.498 
348.459 
348.459 
315.700 
315.700 
  
 
 
315.049  
300.006  
353.403  
322.819  
 
680.149 
878.722 
894.475 
951.073 
940.585 
1,213.131  
 
 
922.254  
712.900  
1,357.480  
997.545  
 
1,385.959 
1,114.808 
567.228 
4,583.883 
7,405.513 
7,278.011   
 
 
AMS IS NOT SUBJECT TO REDUCTION BECAUSE THE TOTAL IS LESS 
THAN 5 PER CENT OF THE VAL UE OF PRODUCTION OF U.S. 
AGRICULTURE. 
(0.05*$142,930 mil. = $7,146 mil. in 1986-88) 
 
(0.05*$190,110 million = $9,505 million in 1995) 
(0.05*$205,701 million = $10,285 million in 1996) 
(0.05*$203,884 million = $10,194 million in 1997) 
(0.05*$190,886 million = $9,544 million in 1998) 
(0.05*$184,735 million = $9,237 million in 1999) 
(0.05*$189,520 million = $9,476 million in 2000) 
  
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DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2001 
 
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support 
 
Total AMS commitment level for period in  question Currency Current Total AMS 
(from Section 1 of Part IV of the Schedule) (from Section 1 of Part IV of the Schedule) (from attached Supporting Tables) 
 2 3 
   
2001  19,103.294 Millions of  US dollars 14,413.059 
   
  
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Supporting Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2001 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment – "Green Box" 
 
Agency and program, by measure and type (some 
agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  2000 2001   
  
(a)  General services: 4,738 8,554 9,214  
Agricultural Research Service (ARS)  
     Agricultural Research Service  
     Buildings & Facilities 
     Miscellaneous Contributed Funds 496 
23 
3 816
51
20895
54
20  
Research and advisory function.  Ac quires, maintains,  and disseminates 
information.  Includes National Agricu ltural Library Functions since 1996.  
Conducts research on a wide variety of topics, including soil and water 
conservation, plant and animal sciences, human nutrition, and integrated 
agricultural systems. 
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) 
     Agricultural Institute 
     National fertilizer development 
     Agriculture 21 Farming Systems 4 
53 
0 0
0
00
0
0  
Research and advisory function. Conduc ts research on problems related to 
agricultural development, environmental quality, and fertilizer material and 
practices.  Started in October 1992, Agri . 21 provides information about family 
farming and profitability using sustainabl e and environmentally friendly methods. 
     Pollution prevention/model site demo 0 0 0  Research and advi sory function.  A research prog ram aimed at helping chemical 
dealers and farmers prevent ground water contamination. 
     Waste management program 0 0 0  Research and advisory function.  Research on devel opment of efficient wetlands 
and of organic plant food and cattle feed from agricultural wastes (broiler litter), 
and other creative wast e management methods. 
Cooperative State Rese arch, Extension,  
and Education Service (CSREES) 
     Cooperative State Research Service 
     Buildings and facilities 281 
0 448
34 
 503
 24  
 
Research function.  Provides grants to state agricultural research  
establishments.  Particip ates in cooperative plan ning with state research 
institutions.  
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agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  2000 2001   
  
     Integrated activities  7  Funds integrated research, educati on, and extension grants programs. 
     Initiative for Future Agricultural and Food Systems  28  Funds high priority research, education, and extension. 
     Extension Service 325 437 432  Advisory function.  Part icipates with state cooperativ e extension system on applied 
education, information, and technology transfer. 
Farm Service Agency 
     Conservation Pr ogram Technical Assistance 
      (revised July 2001)2 02 0 0  
Extension, advisory, and training service functions.  Revised data.  USDA agencies 
provide various technical se rvices to help producers participate in environmental 
and conservation programs, such as th e Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), 
Environmental Quality Incentives Program, and the Wetland Reserve Program.  
This entry has been moved into section (a), general services, since it is not a direct 
payments program.  The CRP data in sec tion (h) now excludes technical service 
outlays for 1995-2000. 
 
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 
     Conservation Pr ogram Technical Assistance 
     (revised July 2001)2 08 4 9 4  
Extension, advisory, and training func tions.  (See immediately preceding FSA 
note). 
National Agricultural Library (NAL) 
     National Agricultural Library 11 (see note>) (see note>)  
Research and advisory function.  Ac quires, maintains,  and disseminates 
information.  Outlays included in ARS,  above, since 1995 (appropriations were 
$18 million in 2000). 
 
Rural Business and Coopera tive Development Service 
(RBCD) 
     Agricultural Cooperatives Service 4 4 4  
 
Research and advisory function.  Pr ovides farmers and US DA administrators 
information related to cooperatives.  Begi nning in FY 1995, salaries and expenses 
were combined with other RBCD functions .  Outlays after 1994 are estimates for 
the cooperative services only. 
 
     Alternative Agricultural Research 0 1 0  Research f unction.  Provides assistance in developing new products from 
agricultural and forestry mate rial and animal byproducts.  
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Agency and program, by measure and type (some 
agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  2000 2001   
  
Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) 
     Salaries & Expenses  
     Buildings & Facilities  
     Miscellaneous Trust Funds   
308 
3 
5  
627
11
23 
894
9
1  
Inspection/pest and disease control function.   
Protects animal and plant resources from destructive pests and diseases. 
State programs for agriculture 
Regular annual outlays by states, net of fees and             
taxes3 
 2,196 4,274
 
 4,349
 
  
 
 
 
  
State governments provide a number of  generally available services. 
Includes extension, marketing, and rese arch.  Excludes state credit programs.  
Amount reported is net of producer fees and taxes paid for various services. 
 
Grain Inspection, Packers and  
Stockyard Administration (GIP&S) 
     Grain inspection salaries and expenses4 
     Inspection & Weighing Service 
 
 
     Packers & Stockyards Administration4 
          7 
(2)
9 10
0
1515
2
18  
 
Marketing/inspection functions.  Establishes standards. 
Provides for official inspection and implem entation of the system of standards for 
marketing.   
 
Conducts surveillance and investigator y activities to pr otect producers and 
consumers from unfair trade practices. 
Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) 
     Salaries & Expenses  
     Inspection & Grading of Farm Products 370 
1 647
(2)648
0  
Safety/inspection function.  Provides in-pla nt inspection to assu re quality of meat 
and poultry and the accuracy of labelling. 
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) 
     Marketing Services 
     Payments to States & Possessions  
 
 
 
     Perishable Agricultural Commodity Act Fund  
     Miscellaneous Trust Funds  
 
     Office of Transportation 34 
1 
4 
81 
2 52
1
7
119
057
1
67
192
0 Marketing function.   
Develops marketing standards and provi des news and inspection services.   
Grants to states for projects, such as  improving marketi ng information, and 
developing grading standards. 
 
 
Uses license fees to take legal actions against unfair buyer trade practices.  
Grading and certification services are provided on a fee-for-service basis. 
 
Marketing function.  Identifies transpor tation issues and provides information.  
Transportation function moved to AMS, above.  
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 1986-88  2000 2001   
  
National Sheep Industry Improvement Center 
     Lamb marketing and promotion programs5 00 5  
Marketing and promotion function.  No pa yments to producers.  USDA grants are 
made to national meat associations a nd universities to help producers market 
domestically produced lamb meat thr ough promotion, marketing training, 
advertising, and education. 
Economic Research Service (ERS) 
     Economic Research Service 
     Miscellaneous Contributed Funds  45 
0 68
066
0  
Research and advisory function.  Performs economic research and analysis for the 
public, Congress, and the Executive Branch. 
National Ag. Statistics Service (NASS) 
     National Agricultural Statistics Service 
     Miscellaneous Contributed Funds  59 
0 103
0104
0  
Research and advisory function.  Provides o fficial estimates of resource utilization, 
production, and prices of agricultural products. 
Executive Operations 
     World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB) 2 3
 3
   
Research and advisory function.  Provi des economic information about current 
outlook and situation for commodity supply and price.  Combined with other 
executive operations in the Budget after 1994. 
 
Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) 
     Conservation Operations 
 
 
 
 
     Resource Conservation and   Development 386
26640
37682
38 
Advisory function.  To pr omote conservation of soil and water, NRCS provides 
technical assistance, conducts soil surveys,  and assesses erosion factors (formerly 
activity of “SCS”). 
 
 
Assists individuals and localities to develop area-wide plans for resource 
conservation and development.  Some cost-share payments prior to 1994. 
 
Departmental Administration 
     Outreach for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers 0 4 2 
Advisory function.  Community-based orga nizations receive grants and contracts 
to provide outreach and technical assistan ce to disadvantaged farms.  Assists 
producers in the community in their farm  ownership and operation, and in their 
participation in government programs.  Funding shifted to Administration starting 
in 1997.  No direct payments. 
(b)  Public Stockholding for Food Security: 0 0 0  
  
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agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  2000 2001   
  
(c)  Domestic food aid: 19,158 32,377 33,916  
Food & Consumer Services (FCS) 
     Food Program Administration 
 
 
     Food Stamp Program 
 
 
     Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico 
 
     Special Milk Program 
 80 
11,813 
852 
16115
18,295
(see note>)
(see note>)119
19,096
(see note>)
(see note>)  
Food programs providing access to more nut ritious diets for low income people 
and children. 
 
Low income people receive financial assi stance to help purchase nutritious food. 
 
 
Food Stamp Program in Puerto Rico comb ined with Food Stamp Program (above). 
 
Provides milk service in schools and institu tions having no other federally assisted 
food programs.  Outlays reported in Ch ild Nutrition Program outlays (below). 
 
     Child Nutrition Programs 4,050 9,203 9,560  
Cash and commodities to assist children to attain adequate diets.  Includes special 
milk, school lunch and breakfast, hom eless children, and other programs. 
 
     Special Supplementa l Nutrition program for   
     Women, Infants, and Children 1,711 3,950 4,077  Food supplements to  improve health of low income  mothers, children, elderly. 
     Food donation program 
  189 137 134  Provides cash or commodities to improve diets of elderly, Indians, and Micronesia. 
 
     Commodity Assistance Program (CAP) 
 0 132 132  CAP includes these previously se parate programs: Co mmodity Supplemental 
Food, Emergency Food, assistance to Indian  Reservations and to Pacific Islands, 
and Nutrition for the Elderly. 
Commodity Supplemen tal Food Program 
 
 
Temporary Emergency Food  Assistance Program 
(TEFAP) 
 
 
Center for Nutrition Po licy and Promotion (CNPP)6 12 
48 
0 (see CAP, 
above) 
(see CAP, 
above)
2 (see CAP, 
above) 
(see CAP, 
above)
0  Food supplements to improve  health of low income mo thers, children, elderly. 
 
 
Helps states to purchase and distribute food to the needy. 
 
 
 
Research and information function.  De velops and implements programs to 
strengthen nutrition research information and education.  Funded through the Food 
Program Administration Account after 1995.  
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 1986-88  2000 2001   
  
Human Nutrition Information Service (HNIS) 
     Human Nutrition Information Service6 9 (see note>) (see note>)  
Functions transferred to Agricultural Research Service and to the new Center for 
Nutrition Policy and Promotion.  Conducts survey of nutritional needs and diet 
possibilities.  Provides consultation and information to the public. 
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) 
     Section 32 (AMS) 378 543 798  
Funds purchases of commoditi es distributed to needy people through the FNS food 
programs described above. 
   
(d)  Decoupled income support: 
 0 5,068 4,100   
Farm Service Agency 
     Production Flexibility C ontract Payments (crop year) 
 0 5,068
 
 4,100
 
 
  
Payments made to producers and landowne rs based on acreage and production in a 
prior base period, as specified in the Federal Agricultural Improvement and 
Reform Act of 1996. 
 
 
 
(e)  Income insurance and safety-net 
       programs: 00 0 Note:  All revenue and income insurance programs are included in Supporting 
Table DS:9, as part of the entr y for USDA Crop Insurance programs. 
(f)   Payments for relief from natural  
       disasters: 
 1,388 2,141 1,421 
Farm Service Agency (FSA) 
     Non-insured Crop Disaster Assistance      
     Program (NAP, crop year) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Crop disaster payments (crop year)  
 
 
 
 0 
1,33273
1,834166
771 
 
Under the 1994 Federal Crop Insuranc e Reform Act (Public Law 103-354), 
producers of crops not currently insurable under other programs received benefits 
if it was determined by the USDA that there have been yield losses greater than 35 
percent for the area, and greater than 50 per cent for the individual farm.  The area 
loss requirement was eliminated per Section 109 of the Agricultural Risk 
Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-224,  June 20, 2000).  The 50 percent loss 
requirement for each producer has been continued. 
 
Under the Food Security Act of 1985, the Disaster Assistance Acts of 1988 and 
1989 and subsequently, assist ance was provided to crop producers suffering from 
natural disasters.  Assistan ce could be provided when there were production losses 
of at least 30%.  1998 out lays authorised by the Omnibus Consolidated and 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations  Act, 1999 (P.L. 105-277, October 21,  
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Agency and program, by measure and type (some 
agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  2000 2001   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Emergency Feed Program 
Emergency Feed Assistance Program      
Forage Assistance Program 
 
 
 
Pasture Recovery Program 
 
 
 
Flood Compensation Program 
 
 
American Indian Livestock Feed Program 53 
7/
0
00
0 188
7/
0
18
1
7
 
 427
7/
0
2420
6
 
 1998).  1998 amount for the green box is the amount for single-year crop disasters 
($1,341 million).  1998 multi-year crop disaster funds are reported in Supporting 
Table DS:9 ($577 million).  1999 outlays are single-year only, per the fiscal year 
2000 appropriations act (Public Law 106-78,  October 22, 1999).  2000 outlays are 
single-year only, per the fiscal year 2001 appropriations act (Public Law 106-387.  
October 28, 2000). 
 
 
Compensates livestock producers for feed crop disasters. 
Compensates livestock producers for feed crop disasters. 
Compensates livestock producers for pastures damaged by drought or related 
conditions (1988 Disaster Assistance Ac t; Public Law 105-174.  May 1, 1998). 
 
 
Compensates for 73.5 percent of the doc umented cost of re-seeding pastures 
damaged by 1999 drought. 
 
 
Compensates farmers in certain eligible counties for loss of use of cropland or 
pastureland due to flooding in fiscal year 1998. 
 
Compensates livestock producers on tribal- governed land for feed crop disasters. 
 
 
Disaster Reserve Assistance Program 
 
 
 
Livestock Indemnity Program 
 
Tree assistance program 
  
Emergency loans
8 0 
 
 
0
0 
 
3 0
 
 
5
2
 
130
 
 
0
1
 
6  
 
Compensates livestock producers for losses of  feed crops in authorized counties.  
Cash reimbursements provided for up to 30% of cost of feed replacement if county 
and producer both have losses of at least 40%. 
 
Compensates producers for livestock losses from recent disasters. 
 
Compensates producers for loss of trees an d fruit vines due to natural disasters 
(1988 Disaster Assistance; Public Law 105-174.  May 1, 1998).   
Provides loans to cover actual losses su stained by farmers in disaster areas.  
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 1986-88  2000 2001   
  
(g) Structural adjustment through  
      producer retirement programs: 0 0 0 
  
 (h) Structural adjustment through  
     resource retirement programs: 532 1,476 1,624 
Farm Service Agency (FSA) 
     Conservation Reserve Program (revised) 194 0 (1)  
Critical soil erosion is reduced through 10- year rental agreements to establish 
permanent cover crops on cropland.  F unding is being shifted to the CCC starting 
in 1996.  Revised in 1999 notification to  exclude related te chnical assistance 
outlays that do not involve direct payments  to producers.  Technical assistance 
now reported in section (a). 
 
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 
     Conservation Reserve Program 0 1,476 1,625  
 
Funding was shifted to the CCC, starting in 1996.  See above description of the 
program. 
 
     Dairy termination program (FY pa yments) 338 0 0  Payments were made to producers agreeing to terminate production 
for a 5-year period. 
(i) Structural adjustment through  
     investment aids: 132 132 106 
Farm Service Agency (FSA) 
     Farm Credit Programs  
     (previously FmHA programs)8 
 
 
 
     State Mediation Grants 
 
 
 
 132 
0
 130
2103
3  
Program includes (i) short-term and long-term  loans made at preferential interest 
rates and (ii) guarantees of private loans.  Eligibility (clearly defined in 
regulations) determined by status as owner-operator of  a family-sized farm in 
situations of structural disadvanta ge (cannot obtain cr edit elsewhere). 
 
Grants provided to states to assist producers having probl ems meeting credit 
obligations.  Assistance must be provi ded through certified agricultural loan 
mediation programs. 
 
  
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agency names have changed)  Outlays (million dollars)1/   Description of program 
 1986-88  2000 2001   
  
(j)  Environmental payments: 202 309 291  
Farm Service Agency (FSA) 
     Agricultural Conservation Program9 
 
     Emergency Conservation Program 
 
 
     Soil and water loans program8 
  
Natural Resource Conservation Service  
     Great Plains Conservation Program
9 
 
 
     Colorado River Basin Salinity Control9 
 
     Water Bank Program 166
6 
0
19
2
94
65
0
3
1
62
41
0
3
1
4  
Conservation of soil and water is achie ved through cost-share agreements. 
 
Assists in funding emergency conservation measures necessary to restore farmland 
damaged by natural disasters. 
 
Low interest loans and loan guarantees to assist farmers to use sound soil and 
water conserva tion practices. 
 
 
Cost share contracts for 3 to 10 years ar e used to help landowners implement long 
term conservation measures. 
 
Water quality for down stream users is enhanced by information/cost sharing. 
 
Conservation of wetlands is achieved th rough 10-year contracts with producers. 
 
     Wetland Reserve Program (also see CCC part) 
 
 
      Farms for the Future 
 
 0
07
0
 4
0
   
Conservation and restoration of wetla nds through long-term agreements.  
Producers must implement a conservation plan and retire crop acreage base. 
 
Provides loan guarantees and interest assist ance to State trust funds to help finance 
programs to protect and pres erve farmland.  Program authority expired September 
30, 1996. 
 
     Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program 0 8 7  Provides technical assistance and cost-share assist ance to landowners to develop 
habitat for upland wildlife, wetlands wildlife, endangered species, fish, and other 
wildlife.  Funds come from CCC under 5-10 year  contracts.  (Title III, Public Law 
104-127, April 4, 1996). 
 
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 
     Wetland Reserve Program (also see NRCS part) 0 113 130  
Conservation and restoration of wetla nds through long-term agreements.  
Producers must implement a conservation plan  and retire crop acreage base.  The 
1996 Farm Act authorized CCC funding star ting in 1997 (Title II I, Public Law 
104-127, April 1996).  
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 1986-88  2000 2001   
  
     Farmland Protection Program 
 
   0 7 6  Conservation plans are made and easements  purchased through State, tribe or local 
government agencies to protect topsoil by limiting conversion to non-agricultural 
uses.  Conservation plans must be carried  out over the 30 years or more of the 
easement term.  Authorized by the 1996 Fa rm Act (Public Law 104-127, April 4, 
1996). 
 
      Environmental Quality Incentives Pr ogram (EQIP) 0 95 93 Encourages farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that reduce envir onmental and 
resource problems.  Half of the funds  are targeted to livestock production 
practices.  Authorized by the 1996 Fa rm Act (Public Law 104-127, April 4, 1996). 
 
(k)  Payments under Regional  Assistance Programs: 0 0 0  
(l)  Other: 0 0 0  
Grand Total 26,151 50,057 50,672  
Footnotes : 
1 Unless otherwise specified, data are outlays for fiscal years.  Ou tlays were excluded from domestic  U.S. tables if not related directly to internal support of producti on agriculture.  Wages and salaries and 
administrative expenses were excluded ex cept where such outlays reflect the leve l of services provided to agriculture. 
2 In providing technical assistance, USDA agen cies explain and determine eligibility for conservation programs,  help develop indi vidual conservation plans, help install a pproved practices, provide information and 
educational assistance, and consult with uni versities and other government agencies.  Th e Farm Service Agency data relate only to participation in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).  The Farm Service 
Agency’s 1986-88 entry for the CRP in section (h) still includes technical assistance outlays.  Beginning in 2001, all CRP tech nical assistance expenditures were reported under the Commodity Credit Corporation.  
The Commodity Credit Corporation data for 2001 also relate to pa rticipation in the Environmenta l Quality Incentives Program, th e Wetland Reserve Program, and the Farm land Protection Program and the new 
Agricultural Management Assistance Program  authorized by the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (PL 106-224, June 20, 200 0) to provide assistance in adopting ri sk reducing conserva tion and financial 
practices. 
3 Fees and taxes were estimated from partia l data for 1986, 1987, and 1995 to 2001.  Co mplete data availabl e for 1988-92.  Source  is Bureau of the Census’ Census of Governments. 
4 Outlays for Grain Inspection and Packers and Stockyards were comb ined in the Budget document.  Outlays for each separately esti mated from appropriations. 
5 These market and promotion activities are part of an overall pr ogram of assistance to sheep and lamb producers facing a surge o f low-priced imported lamb meat.  The National Sheep Industry Improvement 
Center is being used to fund industry applicants’ proposals for grants using cooperative agreements with the USDA’s Agricultura l Marketing Service.  The overall program of assistance includes $68 million over 
four years to improve production (notified in supporting table DS :6), plus funds made available to other USDA green box program s related to animal health, farm credit to structurally disadvantaged producers, 
and domestic food assistance.  The program  details were announced on January 13, 2000. 
6 Former Human Nutrition Information Service fu nctions were transferred to  the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the new Ce nter for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Food and Consumer Service Agency 
(FCSA).  
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and 820,944,327 for FY 89.  There were 829,538 lbs. distributed in  FY 1995 and 162,000 lbs. distributed in FY 1996.  There is n o feed distribution under this program  after FY 1996, as the program was 
suspended through 2002 by the Federal Agriculture Im provement and Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-127). 
8 Derived as the difference between FmHA and commercial interest ra tes times the value of loans made  during the year.  Data also include budget outlays for recognized lo sses on FmHA loan guarantees.   Farm 
Credit System (FCS) programs are not include d because loans are not subsidized.  The Farm Credit Amendments Act of 1986 forbids  the FCS from under pricing its competition.  Also, the FCS interest rates are 
greater than commercial rates, after adjusting announced rates for the mandatory stock purchase requirement paid by borrowers w ithout compensation. 
9 The functions of the following programs are combined after 1995 into a new program called the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP, see CCC, above) under th e Federal Agriculture Improvement 
and Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 106-127) : Agriculture Conservation Program, Great Plains Conservation Program, Water Quality  Incentives Program, and Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program.   
Separate funding for EQIP was also provided starting in 1997. 
  
Public Law References
 
 Public Law 99-198, Food Security Act of 1985 (December 23, 1985).  
Public Law 100-387, Disaster Assi stance Act of 1988 (August 11, 1988). 
 Public Law 101-82, Disaster Assi stance Act of 1989 (August 14, 1989). 
 
Public Law 103-354, Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department  of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (October 4, 1994). 
 
Public Law 104-127, The Federal Agriculture Impr ovement and Reform Act of 1996 (April 4, 1996). 
 Public Law 105-174, 1998 Supplemental  Appropriations and Rescissions  Act, Title II: Emergency S upplemental Appropriations – Cha pter 1: Department of Agriculture (May 1, 1998). 
 
Public Law 105-277, Department of Transpor tation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, Title  XI: Emergency and Market Loss Assistance (October 21, 1998). 
 
Public Law 106-78, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Ag encies Appropriations Act, 2000,  Title VIII: Emergency and Disaster  Assistance for Producers (October 22, 
1999).  
Public Law 106-224, Agricultural Risk Pr otection Act of 2000, Title I, Crop In surance, Section 109 (June 22, 2000). 
 Public Law 106-387, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Ag encies Appropriations Act, 2001 , Title VIII: Natural Disaster Assistance and Other Emergency 
Appropriations (October 28, 2000). 
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DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2001 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment – Di rect payments under production-limiting programs 
 
Measure Type Name and description of measur e with reference to criteria in Article 6:5 Monetary value of measure in year in 
question 
(million dollars) Data sources 
1 2 3 4 
(a)  Payments based on fixed area and yields. 
 NA  
(b)  Payments based on 85 per cent or less of base level of production:   
Wheat NA 1 
Rice NA 1 
Corn NA 1 
Sorghum NA 1 
Barley NA 1 
Oats NA 1 
Cotton NA 1 
 
(c)  Livestock payments on a fixed number of head  
NA  
NA = not applicable. 
 
1 Deficiency payments, included here for 1995, were eliminated for all years after 1995 by the Federal Agriculture Improvement a nd Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-127, April 4, 
1996).   
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Supporting Table DS:4 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2001 
 
Calculation of the Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support 
 
Description of basic products including 
non-product-specific (AMS) Calculated AMS Value of production Current Total AMS 
  
Mil. dol. Amount1 
Mil. dol. 5 per cent of value 
Mil. dol.  
Mil. dol. 
1 2 3 4 5 
 
Product-specific AMS  (from Supporting Tables DS:5 to DS:7) 
 
Apples 0.000 1,448.348  72.4172 
Apricots 0.000 26.598  1.3302 
Barley 16.410 536.582  28.8292 
Beef and Veal 0.000 29,293.241  1,464.6622 
Corn 1,269.661 18,888.389  944.419 1,269.661 
Cotton 2,810.112 3,789. 196  189.460 2,810.112 
Cranberries 0.000 110.342  5.517                                         2 
Dairy 4,483.326 24,893. 985  1,244.699 4,483.326 
Hogs and pigs 0.000 11,430.029  571.5012 
Honey 0.000 132.225  6.6112 
Minor Oil Seed:   
    Canola 22.953 175.351  8.768 22.953 
    Crambe 0.444 2.485  0.124 0.444 
    Flaxseed 11.808 49.004  2.450 11.808  
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non-product-specific (AMS) Calculated AMS Value of production Current Total AMS 
  
Mil. dol. Amount1 
Mil. dol. 5 per cent of value 
Mil. dol.  
Mil. dol. 
1 2 3 4 5 
 
Product-specific AMS  (from Supporting Tables DS:5 to DS:7) 
 
    Mustard Seed 0.001 4.976  0.2492 
    Rapeseed 0.047 0.437  0.022 0.047 
    Safflower 0.000 26.340  1.3172 
    Sesame 0.000 2.105  0.1052 
    Sunflower 54.514 325.950  16.298                         54.514 
Mohair 0.029 4.200  0.210                                        2 
Oats 4.211 195.711  9.786                                        2 
Onions 0.000 697.950  34.898                                        2 
Peaches 0.000 493.298  24.665                                         2 
Peanuts 304.617 1,000.512  50.026 304.617 Pears 0.000  271.788  13.589  
2 
Potatoes 0.000  3,066.081  153.304  2 
Rice 762.878  925.055  46.253                         762.878 
Rye 0.000  20.422  1.021  2 
Sheep and lamb 21.700  298.386  14.919  21.700 Sorghum 5.833  979.794  48.990  
2 
Soybeans 3,610.041  12, 605.717  630.286  3,610.041 
Sugar 1,060.958  2,028. 352  101.418  1,060.958 
Tomatoes 0.000  1,939.975  96.999  2  
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Description of basic products including 
non-product-specific (AMS) Calculated AMS Value of production Current Total AMS 
  
Mil. dol. Amount1 
Mil. dol. 5 per cent of value 
Mil. dol.  
Mil. dol. 
1 2 3 4 5 
 
Product-specific AMS  (from Supporting Tables DS:5 to DS:7) 
 
Tobacco (1.310)  1,627.639  81.382  2 
Wheat 189.393  5,440.217  272.011  2 
Wool 0.000  15.193  0.760  2 
All other (not in AMS calculation) 0.000  75,756.872  3,787.844  2 
Total for all commodities 14,627.626  198,502.745  9,925.137  14,413.059 
Non-product-specific AMS 
(from Supporting Table DS:9 below) 6,828.154 
198,502.745 
9,925.137  
2 
    Total: Current Total AMS 14,413.059 
1 Value of production reported by National Agricultural Statistics Se rvice (NASS), in general.  Ca sh receipts from the Economic R esearch Service were used for fruits and nuts, vegetables, 
horses and mules, aquaculture, and “other crops”, excluding cash receipts for some specific crops that are available as actual value of production in NASS reports. 
2 AMS does not need to be included in the Current AMS because th e calculated amount is less that 5 percent of value of production .  
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DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2001 
 
Product-Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support:  Market Price Support 
 
Description of  
product Marketing year 
starting … Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne) External 
reference price  
 
($/tonne) Eligible 
production 
 
(million tonnes) Associated 
fees/levies 
 
($ million) Total market 
price support1 
 
($ million) New notes, data sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
((4-5)*6)-7 9 
       
Dairy   1 Oct. 2001   Price s upport/quota 218.258 159.826 76.726 4,483.202  
       Sugar   1 Oct. 2001   Price support/quota 374.786 230.824 7.167 1,031.741 
2 
       
Peanuts   1 Aug. 2001   Price support/quota 672.410  413.160 1.198 310.635 3 
      
All Commodities  
(before de minimis) 5,825.578  
1 Calculated with unrounded data. 
2 Reference price based on 1986-88 average Caribbean price adjusted  to include transportation costs of $28.66/tonne (28.66 + 202. 164 = 230.824).  Annual Caribbean price is the simple 
average of 12 monthly prices.  Applied administered price is th e announced loan rate for cane s ugar (18 cents per lb.) less the  1 cent per lb. penalty that must be paid if sugar is actually 
forfeited to the government. ($0.17 x 2204.622 = $374.786) 
3 Eligible production includes the domestic ma rketing (actual poundage) quota of 2,360 million lbs. plus the additional peanuts r eceiving price support through the buyback system of 
32.756 million lbs., plus the seed quota of 185.000 millio n lbs.  The support price is for quota peanuts only.  
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Supporting Table DS:6 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing Year 2001 
 
Product-Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support:  Non-Exempt Direct Payments 
 
Description of 
basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
  
($ million)
 Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
         
Apples 1 June 2001 Market loss payments  0.000    1 
  Quality loss payments          0.000    2 
  Subtotal other payments          0.000      0.000           
Apples 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments    0.000  
 
        
Apricots 1 June 2001 California Tri-Valley market loss  0.000  0.000  3 
         
Apricots 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments    0.000   
         
Barley 1 June 2001 Marketing loan gains  0.281     
  Loan deficiency payments  15.674     
  Commodity loan forfeit  0.018     
  Certificate exchange gains  0.006    4 
  Subtotal other payments  15.979  15.979   
         
Barley 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       15.979   
         
Beef/veal 1 Jan. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments  
       0.000    
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basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
         
Corn 1 Sept. 2001 Commodity loan forfeit  0.084     
  Marketing loan gains  85.598     
  Loan deficiency payments  1,105.070     
  Certificate exchange gains  2.724    4 
  Subtotal other payments  1,193.476  1,193.476   
 
Corn  
1 Sept. 2001  
Subtotal all direct payments        
1,193.476   
         
Cotton 1 Aug. 2001 Marketing loan gains  46.704     
  Loan deficiency payments  743.945     
  User marketing payments  182.049     
  Cotton seed payments  0.000    5 
  Commodity loan forfeit  0.065     
  Certificate exchange gains  1,750.276    4 
  Subtotal other payments  2,723.039  2,723.039   
         
Cotton 1 Aug. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       2,723.039   
            
Cranberries 1 Jan. 2001 Market loss payments     0.000  0.000   
            
Cranberries 1 Jan. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       0.000   
         
Dairy 1 Oct. 2001 Dairy indemnities  0.124     
  Dairy market loss payment  0.000    6 
  Dairy production disaster 
assistance   
0.000     
7 
  Subtotal other payments  0.124  0.124   
         
Dairy 1 Oct. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       0.124    
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Description of 
basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
         
Hogs and pigs 1 Dec. 2000 Small hog program payments  0.000  0.000   
         
Hogs and pigs 
 
 1 Dec. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments     0.000   
         
Honey 1 Jan. 2001 Price related direct payments NA      
  Commodity loan forfeit  0.000    8 
  Marketing loan gains  0.000    8 
  Loan deficiency payments  0.000    8 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.000    4 
  Subtotal other payments  0.000  0.000   
         
Honey 1 Jan. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       0.000   
        
Minor oilseeds        
 Canola 1 June 2001 Commodity loan forfeit  0.026     
  Marketing loan gains  0.592     
  Loan deficiency payments  22.218     
  Oilseed payments  0.000    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.002    4 
  Subtotal other payments  22.838  22.838   
         
 Canola 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       22.838    
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basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
            
Minor oilseeds            
 Crambe 1 June 2001 Commodity loan forfeit     0.000     
  Marketing loan gains     0.007     
  Loan deficiency payments     0.298     
  Oilseed payments     0.000    9 
  Certificate exchange gains     0.131    4 
  Subtotal other payments     0.438  0.438   
            
 Crambe 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       0.438   
            
Minor oilseeds         
 Flaxseed 1 July 2001 Commodity loan forfeit  0.002     
  Marketing loan gains  0.047     
  Loan deficiency payments  11.729     
  Oilseed payments  0.000    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.000    4 
  Subtotal other payments  11.778  11.778   
             
 Flaxseed 1 July 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       11.778   
            
 
Minor oilseeds         
 Mustard seed 1 Sept. 2001 Commodity loan forfeit  0.000     
  Marketing loans  0.000     
  Loan deficiency payments  0.000     
  Oilseed payments  0.000    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.000    4 
  Subtotal other payments  0.000  0.000   
         
 Mustard seed 1 Sept. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       0.000    
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Description of 
basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
        
 
Minor oilseeds         
 Rapeseed 1 June 2001 Commodity loan forfeit  0.000     
  Marketing loans  0.000     
  Loan deficiency payments  0.047     
  Oilseed payments  0.000    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.000    4 
  Subtotal other payments  0.047  0.047   
         
 Rapeseed 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       0.047   
        
        
Minor oilseeds        
 Safflower 1 Sept. 2001 Commodity loan forfeit  0.000     
  Marketing loans  0.000     
  Loan deficiency payments  0.000     
  Oilseed payments  0.000    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.000    4 
  Subtotal other payments  0.000  0.000   
         
 Safflower 1 Sept. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       0.000   
         
Minor oilseeds        
 Sesame               1 Sept. 2001 Oilseed payments  0.000    9 
 Subtotal other payments  0.000  0.000   
        
  Sesame             1 Sept. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments    0.000    
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basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
 
Minor oilseeds        
 Sunflower 1 Sept. 2001 Commodity loan forfeit  0.038     
  Marketing loan gains  1.716     
  Loan deficiency payments  52.717     
  Oilseed payments  0.000    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  0.049    4 
  Subtotal other payments  54.520  54.520   
            
 Sunflower 1 Sept. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       54.520   
    0.000     
Mohair 1 Jan. 2001 Support payments NA     10 
  Subtotal price related payments    0.000   
         
Mohair 1 Jan. 2001 Market loss payments  0.000    10 
  Subtotal other payments  0.000  0.000   
         
Mohair 1 Jan. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       0.000   
         
Oats 1 June 2001 Marketing loan gains  0.001     
  Loan deficiency payments  4.183     
  Commodity loan forfeit  0.000     
  Certificate exchange gains  0.000    4 
  Subtotal other payments  4.184  4.184   
         
Oats 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments    4.184   
         
Onions 1 April 2001 Market loss assistance  0.000  0.000  1 
Onions 1 April 2001 Subtotal all direct payments    0.000    
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Description of 
basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
         
Peaches 1 June 2001 California Tri-Valley market loss  0.000  0.000  3 
Peaches 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments    0.000   
 
Peanuts  
1 Aug. 2001  
Commodity loan forfeit   
0.000     
  Market loss payments  0.000    11 
  Subtotal other payments  0.000  0.000   
         
Peanuts 1 Aug. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       0.000   
         
Pears 1 June 2001 California Tri-Valley market loss  0.000  0.000  3 
Pears 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments    0.000   
         
Potatoes 1 Nov. 2000 Market loss payments  0.000    12 
  Quality loss payments  0.000    2 
  Subtotal other payments  0.000  0.000   
         
Potatoes 1 Nov. 2000 Subtotal all direct payments    0.000   
         
Rice 1 Aug. 2001 Commodity loan forfeit  15.254     
  Marketing loan gains  199.260     
  Marketing certificate payments  0.000     
  Loan deficiency payments  308.355     
  Certificate exchange gains  205.099    4 
  Subtotal other payments  727.968  727.968   
         
Rice 1 Aug. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       727.968   
         
Rye 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       0.000  8  
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basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
         
Sheep & lamb 1 Aug. 2001 Adjustment  assistance program  21.700    13 
  Subtotal other payments  21.700  21.700   
         
Sheep & lamb 1 Aug. 2001 Subtot al all direct payments   
        21.700   
         
Sorghum 1 Sept. 2001 Marketing loan gains  0.218     
  Loan deficiency payments  5.019     
  Commodity loan forfeit  0.002     
  Certificate exchange gain  0.009    4 
  Subtotal other payments  5.248  5.248   
 
Sorghum  
1 Sept. 2001  
Subtotal all direct payments        
5.248   
         
Soybeans 1 Sept. 2001 Commodity loan forfeit  1.728     
  Marketing loan payments  270.544     
  Loan deficiency payments  3,155.877     
  Oilseed payments  0.000    9 
  Certificate exchange gains  15.553    4 
  Subtotal other payments  3,443.702  3,443.702   
         
Soybeans 1 Sept. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       3,443.702   
         
Sugar 1 Oct. 2001 Commodity loan forfeit  0.000     
  Sugar cooperative payment  0.000    14 
  Diversion payments  27.221    15 
  Subtotal other payments  27.221  27.221   
         
Sugar 1 Oct. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       27.221   
          
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Description of 
basic product  
Marketing year 
starting…  Measure type Applied 
administered 
price 
($/tonne)  External 
reference 
price  
($/tonne)  Eligible 
production
(million 
tonnes)  Total price-
related direct 
payments 
($ million)  Other non-
exempt direct 
payments 
($ million)  Fees/levies
 
 
($ million)  Total direct 
payments 
 
($ million)  Adjustment 
factor 
 
Ratio  New notes, 
data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4-5)*6*11)8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 12 
 
Tobacco  
1 Oct. 2001  
Commodity loan forfeit   
0.000   
   
 
  Market loss payments  5.808    16 
  Subtotal other payments  5.808  5.808   
         
Tobacco 1 Oct. 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       5.808   
         
         
Tomatoes 1 June 2001 California Tri-Valley market loss  0.000  0.000  3 
Tomatoes 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments    0.000   
         
Wheat 1 June 2001 Commodity loan forfeit  2.303     
  Marketing loan gains  5.010     
  Loan deficiency payments  167.741     
  Certificate exchange gains  1.565    4 
  Subtotal other payments  176.619  176.619   
         
Wheat 1 June 2001 Subtotal all direct payments       176.619   
 
Wool  
1 Jan. 2001  
Support payments  
NA    
0.000   
10 
  Subtotal price related payments    0.000   
         
Wool 1 Jan. 2001 Market loss payments  0.000    10 
  Subtotal other payments  0.000  0.000   
         
 
Wool  
1 Jan. 2001  
Subtotal all direct payments        
0.000   
         
All Commodities      2001 
(before de minimis) Subtotal all direct payments     0.000 8,434.689  8,434.689   
NA = not applicable .  
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 Page 671 Assistance payments were made to partia lly compensate apple and onion producers for lo w market prices.  (Section 741, Public L aw 107-76, and Sections 10105 and 10106, Public Law 
107-171).  Not re-authorized for marketing year 2001. 
2 Apples and potatoes quality loss program compensates farmers who suffered at leas t a 20 percent loss in value for 1999 or 2000  crops because of reduced quality due to weather-related 
disasters (Public Law 106-387).  No  re-authorized for 2001 crops.  
3 Payments made to producers who were unable to market their apri cots, peaches, pears, or tomatoes because of the insolvency of an agricultural cooperative in California (Section 843, 
Public Law 106-387).  No payments authorized for 2001 crops.  
4 Certificate exchange gain is the net gain to producers due to se ttlement of commodity loans at a rate that is below the origina l per-unit loan rate, where commodity certificates are used for 
the repayment.  First announced in February 2000, the authoriza tion for this comes from an amendment to the Federal Agriculture  Improvement and Reform  Act of 1996 (Section 812, 
Subtitle B, Title VIII,  Public Law 106-78). 
5 Payments to producers and first handler s of cottonseed (Section 204, Public Law 106-224 and Section 6, Public Law 107-25).  
6 Emergency market loss payments to dairy produ cers not re-authorized for marketing year 2001. 
7 No FY 2001 outlays for documented milk production losses in desi gnated natural disaster areas (T itle VIII, Public Law 105-277 a nd Title II, Public Law 105-174). 
8 Honey and rye programs eliminated by the Fe deral Agriculture Improvement and Reform Ac t of 1996.  Recourse loan program for hon ey for marketing year 2000 authorized by Section 
204, Public Law 106-224.  Honey loans convert ed to non-recourse loans with provisions for loan-related payments in October 2000  (Section 812, Public Law 106-387).  Not re-authorized 
for marketing year 2001.  
9 Non-recourse loans and loan-related payments are mandated for 1996-2002 oilseed crops (Title I, Subtitle C, Public Law 104-127 ).  Additional oilseed paymen ts authorized in June 2000 
and August 2001(Section 202, Public  Law 106-224 and Section 2, Public Law 107-25) .  Additional oilseed payments not re-authoriz ed for marketing year 2001. 
10 Support payment programs for wool and moha ir terminated on 31 December 1995.  Mark et loss payment programs provided for 2000 i n October 2000 and August 2001(Section 814, 
Public Law 106-387 and Section 5,  Public Law 107-25).  Programs not continued for 2001.  
11 Peanut market loss payment program provided for 2000 crop in  October 2000 and August 2001(Section 204, Public Law 106-224, and  Section 3, Public Law 107-25).  Not re-authorized 
for marketing year 2001. 
12 Payments provided by the Agricultural Marketing Service as comp ensation for diverting russet potatoes to charitable food insti tutions, livestock feed, and ethanol production (AMS News 
Release No. 078-01, April 2001).  Program  not re-authorized for 2001 crop.  
13 A USDA adjustment program, initiated in July 1999 to improve  competitiveness through production assistance payments, provides $68 million over four years under Clause 3 of Section 
32 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of A ugust 24, 1935, as amended.  Se ction 32 authorizes USDA paym ents to re-establish purc hasing power (Lamb Meat Adjustment Assistance 
Program FSA Fact Sheets, August 14, 2000 and April, 2002).  The Ag ricultural Marketing Service tr ansferred Section 32 funds to the FSA for program administration. 
14 FY 2001 (marketing year 2000) payments to a Hawaiian transporta tion cooperative whose sugar-pr oducing members suffered extraor dinary market losses due to low prices (Section 822, 
Public Law 106-387).  No payments made for marketing year 2001.   
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Page 68 15 The Commodity Credit Corporation provided 269,538 metric tons of  sugar (raw value) to producers who agreed not to harvest thei r 2000 sugar crop.  For the 2000 and 2001 notifications, 
these payment-in-kind (PIK) transfers were valued at the same per-unit rate as the actual product ion that was included in the m arket prices support calculation in supporting table DS:5: for 
2000, ($374.786 - $230.824) x (.269538 million tons) = $38.8 milli on); for 2001, ($374.786 - $230.824) x (.189085 million tons)  = $27.2 million).  This PIK diversion program is 
authorized by the Cost Reduction Option prov ision of the 1985 farm act (Public Law 99-198). 
16 Payment initiated to partially compensa te producers and quota owners for the reduc tion in the quantity of quota allotments fro m 1999 to 2000 crop year (Section 204, Public Law 106-
224, and Section 4, Public Law 107-25).  Addi tional funds were authorized for loss of  temporary transfers or under marketings q uantity quota or acreage allotm ent for the 2001 crop by the 
FY 2002 Agricultural Appropriations Ac t (Public Law 107-76; November 2001). 
 
Public Law References:  
Public Law 99-198, Food Security Act of 1985 (December 23, 1985). 
Public Law 104-127, The Federal Agriculture Improve ment and Reform Act of 1996 (April 4, 1996). 
Public Law 105-174, 1998 Supplemental Appropria tions and Rescissions Act, Title II: Em ergency Supplemental Appropriations – Cha pter 1: Department of Ag riculture (May 1, 1998). 
Public Law 105-277, Department of Transportation and Related Agen cies Appropriations Act, 1999, Title XI: Emergency and Market Loss Assistance (October 21, 1998). 
Public Law 106-31, 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, Title I: Emergency Supplemental Appropriations – Chapter 1: Department of Agriculture (May 21, 1999). 
Public Law 106-78, Agriculture, Rural Devel opment, Food and Drug Administration, and Re lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000,  Title VIII: Emergency and Disaster Assistance for 
Producers (October 22, 1999). 
Public Law 106-224, Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000, Titl e II: Agricultural Assistance – Subtitle A: Market Loss Assis tance, (June 22, 2000). 
Public Law 106-387, Agriculture, Rural Develo pment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Ap propriations Act, 2001 , Title VIII: Natural Disaster Assistance and Other 
Emergency Appropriati ons, (October 28, 2000). 
 
Public Law 107-25, Agricultural Econom ic Assistance Act (August 13, 2001). 
 
Public Law 107-76, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agen cies Appropriations Act, 2002,  Title I: Agricultural Progr ams  (November 28, 2001). 
 
Public Law 107-171, Farm Security and Rura l Investment Act of 2002 (May 13, 2002).  
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DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing year 2001 
 
Product-Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support:  Other Product-Specific Support and Total Product-Specific Support 
 
Description of 
product Marketing year 
starting… Measure type Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
($ million) Other product 
specific 
support 
 
($ million) Fees/levies 
  
 
($ million) Total other 
support 
 
 
($ million) Market price 
support (from 
DS:5) 
 
($ million) Non-exempt 
direct payments 
(from  DS:6)  
 
 ($ million) Total AMS 
  
 
($ million) New 
notes, 
data 
sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 
 9 10 
(7+8+9) 11 
    
Apples 1 June 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.000       1 
  Subtotal other support 0.000   0.000     
           
Apples 1 June 2001 TOTAL AMS    0.000           0.000 0.000  
           
Apricots 1 June 2001 TOTAL AMS                       0.000 0.000  
           
Barley 1 June 2001 Storage payments NA       2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.456         
  Subtotal other support 0.456   0.025 0.431    3 
           
Barley 1 June 2001 TOTAL AMS        0.431 0.000 15.979 16.410  
                      
Beef & Veal 1 Jan. 2001 Subtotal other support      0.000     
           
Beef & Veal 1 Jan. 2001 TOTAL AMS     0.000    0.000   
           
           
Corn 1 Sept. 2001 Storage payments NA       
2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 79.458         
  Subtotal other support 79.458   3.273 76.185    3 
           
Corn 1 Sept. 2001 TOTAL AMS        76.185  1,193.476 1,269.661  
           
            
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Description of 
product Marketing year 
starting… Measure type Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
($ million) Other product 
specific 
support 
 
($ million) Fees/levies 
 
 
 
($ million) Total other 
support 
 
 
($ million) Market price 
support (from 
DS:5) 
 
($ million) Non-exempt 
direct payments 
(from  DS:6)  
 
 ($ million) Total AMS 
 
 
 
($ million) New 
notes, 
data 
sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 
 9 10 
(7+8+9) 11 
           
Cotton 1 Aug. 2001 Storage payments 62.086        2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 25.020         
  Subtotal other support 87.106   0.033 87.073    3 
           
Cotton 1 Aug. 2001 TOTAL AMS        87.073  2,723.039 2,810.112  
           
Cranberries 1 Jan. 2001 TOTAL AMS      0.000 0.000  
           
Dairy 1 Oct. 2001 Dairy assessments   NA     4 
  Northeast dairy compact  0.000      5 
  Subtotal other support 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000     
           
Dairy 1 Oct. 2001 TOTAL AMS        0.000 4,483.202 0.124 4,483.326  
           
Hogs and pigs 1 Dec. 2000 TOTAL AMS    0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000  
           
Honey 1 Jan. 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy  0.000       6 
  Subtotal other support 0.000  0.000 0.000    3 
           
Honey 1 Jan. 2001 TOTAL AMS        0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000  
           
           
Minor oilseeds          
     Canola 1 June 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.118        
  Subtotal other support 0.118  0.001 0.117    3 
 
           
     Canola 1 June 2001 TOTAL AMS        0.117 0.000 22.836 22.953  
          
Minor oilseeds          
     Crambe 1 June 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 
Subtotal other support 0.006 
0.006   
0.000  
0.006     
3 
     Crambe 1 June 2001 TOTAL AMS    0.006 0.000 0.438 0.444   
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product Marketing year 
starting… Measure type Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
($ million) Other product 
specific 
support 
 
($ million) Fees/levies 
 
 
 
($ million) Total other 
support 
 
 
($ million) Market price 
support (from 
DS:5) 
 
($ million) Non-exempt 
direct payments 
(from  DS:6)  
 
 ($ million) Total AMS 
 
 
 
($ million) New 
notes, 
data 
sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 
 9 10 
(7+8+9) 11 
           
Minor oilseeds           
     Flaxseed 1 July 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 
Subtotal other support 0.030 
0.030   
0.000  
0.030     
3 
     Flaxseed 1 July 2001 TOTAL AMS        0.030 0.000 11.778 11.808  
 
Minor oilseeds          
     Mustard seed 1 Sept. 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.001        
  Subtotal other support 0.001   0.000  0.001    3 
 
     Mustard seed  
1 Sept. 2001  
TOTAL AMS       
0.001   
0.000  
0.001  
 
Minor oilseeds          
     Rapeseed 1 June 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.000         
  Subtotal other support 0.000   0.000  0.000     3 
           
     Rapeseed 1 June  2001 TOTAL AMS        0.000  0.000  0.047  0.047   
 
Minor oilseeds          
 
     Safflower 1 Sept. 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.000         
  Subtotal other support 0.000   0.000  0.000     3 
           
     Safflower 1 Sept. 2001 TOTAL AMS        0.000  0.000  0.000 0.000  
          
Minor oilseeds                            
     Sesame                       1 Sept. 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.000  0.000 0.000    3 
 Subtotal other support 0.000        
          
     Sesame                       1 Sept. 2001 TOTAL AMS     0.000 0.000 0.000  
          
 
Minor oilseeds          
     Sunflower 1 Sept. 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.000        
  Subtotal other support 0.000  0.006 (0.006)    3 
           
     Sunflower 1 Sept. 2001 TOTAL AMS        (0.006) 0.000 54.520 54.514  
            
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Description of 
product Marketing year 
starting… Measure type Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
($ million) Other product 
specific 
support 
 
($ million) Fees/levies 
 
 
 
($ million) Total other 
support 
 
 
($ million) Market price 
support (from 
DS:5) 
 
($ million) Non-exempt 
direct payments 
(from  DS:6)  
 
 ($ million) Total AMS 
 
 
 
($ million) New 
notes, 
data 
sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 
 9 10 
(7+8+9) 11 
           
Mohair 1 Jan.  2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.029       7 
  Subtotal other support 0.029  0.000 0.029     3 
           
Mohair 1 Jan. 2001 TOTAL AMS        0.029  0.000  0.000 0.029  
           
           
           
Oats 1 June 2001 Storage payments NA        2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.031        
  Subtotal other support 0.031  0.004 0.027    3 
           
Oats 1 June 2001 TOTAL AMS        0.027 0.000  4.184 4.211  
           
           
           
Onions 1 June 2001 TOTAL AMS      0.000 0.000  
           
Peaches 1 June 2001 TOTAL AMS      0.000 0.000  
           
Peanuts 1 Aug. 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 6.754       8 
  Subtotal other support 6.754  12.772 (6.018)     3 
           
Peanuts 1 Aug. 2001 TOTAL AMS        (6.018)  310.635 0.000 304.617  
           
           
Pears 1 June 2001 TOTAL AMS      0.000 0.000  
           
Potatoes 1 Nov. 2000 TOTAL AMS    0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000  
           
           
           
Rice 1 Aug. 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 35.219        
  Subtotal other support 35.219  0.309 34.910    3 
           
Rice 1 Aug. 2001 TOTAL AMS        34.910 0.000  727.968 762.878  
           
            
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product Marketing year 
starting… Measure type Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
($ million) Other product 
specific 
support 
 
($ million) Fees/levies 
 
 
 
($ million) Total other 
support 
 
 
($ million) Market price 
support (from 
DS:5) 
 
($ million) Non-exempt 
direct payments 
(from  DS:6)  
 
 ($ million) Total AMS 
 
 
 
($ million) New 
notes, 
data 
sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 
 9 10 
(7+8+9) 11 
           
Rye 1 June 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy NA       6 
  Subtotal other support 0.000   0.000     
           
Rye 1 June 2001 TOTAL AMS        0.000 0.000  0.000  0.000   
           
           
Sheep & lamb 1 Aug. 2001 TOTAL AMS      21.700 21.700  
           
           
           
Sorghum 1 Sept. 2001 Storage payments NA       2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 0.622         
  Subtotal other support 0.622   0.037 0.585    3 
           
Sorghum 1 Sept. 2001 TOTAL AMS      0.585 0.000  5.248 5.833  
           
           
Soybeans 1 Sept. 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 167.073        
  Subtotal other support 167.073  0.734 166.339    3 
           
 
Soybeans  
1 Sept. 2001  
TOTAL AMS       
166.339  
0.000   
3,443.702  
3,610.041  
           
           
           
Sugar 1 Oct. 2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 10.404        
  Subtotal other support 10.404  8.408 1.996    3, 9 
           
Sugar 1 Oct. 2001 TOTAL AMS     1.996 1,031.741 27.221  1,060.958  
           
           
Tobacco 1 Oct.  2001 Commodity loan interest subsidy 28.577        
  Subtotal other support 28.577  35.695 (7.118)    3 
           
Tobacco 1 Oct. 2001 TOTAL AMS        (7.118) 0.000  5.808 (1.310)  
           
Tomatoes 1 June 2001 TOTAL AMS      0.000 0.000   
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Description of 
product Marketing year 
starting… Measure type Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
($ million) Other product 
specific 
support 
 
($ million) Fees/levies 
 
 
 
($ million) Total other 
support 
 
 
($ million) Market price 
support (from 
DS:5) 
 
($ million) Non-exempt 
direct payments 
(from  DS:6)  
 
 ($ million) Total AMS 
 
 
 
($ million) New 
notes, 
data 
sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 
 9 10 
(7+8+9) 11 
           
Wheat 1 June 2001 Storage payments NA       2 
  Commodity loan interest subsidy 13.076        
  Subtotal other support 13.076  0.302 12.774    3 
           
Wheat 1 June 2001  TOTAL AMS        12.774 0.000  176.619 189.393  
           
           
Wool 1 Jan.  2001 Subtotal other support NA  0.000  0.000     
           
Wool 1 Jan. 2001 TOTAL AMS        0.000  0.000  0.000 0.000  
           
           All commodities  
(before de 
minimis) 2001 TOTAL AMS  428.960 0.000 61.599 367.361 5,825.578 8,434.687 14,627.626  
NA = Not applicable. 
Footnotes : 
1 Loans to producers suffering low prices were provided in FY 2001,  treated here as marketing year 2000 benefits.  CCC interest r ates were compared to commercial rates and the difference 
applied to the value of the loans made (Section 203, Public La w 106-224).  Loan program not re-authorized for marketing year 20 01. 
2 Program suspended after 1995 by the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (Title I, Subtitle F,  Permanent Pric e Support Authority, Public Law 104-127). 
3 Fees/levies include loan origination and re lated fees for most loan commodities, in addition to marketing assessments for peanu ts and tobacco. 
4 Dairy assessments terminated under provisions  of the Federal Agriculture Improvement an d Reform Act of 1996 (Title  I,  Subtitle  D, Chapter 1, Public Law 104-127) . 
5 Net additional benefits provided to dairy pr oducers at the subnational level by the “Nor th East Dairy Compact,” initially autho rized by Title I, Subtitle D, Chapter 1, Public Law 104-127.  
Program was extended through September 30, 2001.    Since July 1997, users of Class 1 m ilk in the NE had to pay at least $16.94 per cwt. for the milk instead of whatever was the then 
current Federal Milk Marketing Order Class 1 price.  Producers receive part of this additional value after a number of deductio ns and additions were made.  The amount reported here is 
already net of the adjustments, so no separate “fee” is recorded.  This program was not extended for FY 2002.    
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Law 105-277) and reauthorized for 1999 (Section 801, Public Law 106-78) and 2000 (Section 204, Public Law 106-224).  The recour se loan program was converted to a non-recourse 
program with marketing loan gain provisions  in 2000 (Section 812, Public Law 106-387) .  The honey program was not re-authorized  for the 2001 crop.  
 
7 Interest free recourse loans for mohair  were authorised for crops produced durin g FY 1999 (Section 1126, Public Law 105-277) a nd during FY 2000 (Section 801, Subtitle A, Title VIII, 
Public Law 106-78).  These loans extended into FY 2001, and the re lated interest subsidies were tr eated as benefits for marketi ng year 2000 for the WTO notification.  There was no loan 
program for FY 2001 or FY 2002 production. 
8 Peanut interest subsidy for 2001 based on da ta for all loans outstanding, as reported in both the CCC General Ledger and Financ ial Management Systems.  Th is includes data for producer 
loans and producer association loans, for both quota and additi onal peanuts.  Source is the Farm Service Agency, USDA. 
9 Sugar marketing assessments were suspende d for fiscal years 2000 and 2001 by the fiscal year 2000 appropriations act (Public L aw 106-78) and eliminated begi nning with fiscal year 2002 
by the Farm Security and Rural Investment  Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-171.  Any actual or assumed fees related to the mandated sugar forfeiture penalty (Subtitl e D, Title I, Public Law 
104-127) is already accounted for in S upporting Table DS:5 (see footnote 1). 
 
 
Public Law References:  
Public Law 104-127, The Federal Agriculture Improve ment and Reform Act of 1996 (April 4, 1996). 
Public Law 105-277, Department of Transportation and Related Agen cies Appropriations Act, 1999, Title XI: Emergency and Market Loss Assistance (October 21, 1998). 
Public Law 106-78, Agriculture, Rural Devel opment, Food and Drug Administration, and Re lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000,  Title VIII: Emergency and Disaster Assistance for 
Producers (October 22, 1999). 
Public Law 106-224, Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000, Titl e II: Agricultural Assistance – Subtitle A: Market Loss Assis tance (June 22, 2000). 
Public Law 106-387, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Ad ministration, and Related Agenci es Appropriations Act of 20 01. 
Public Law 107-171, Farm Security and Rural Investment Act (May 13, 2002).   
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Supporting Table DS:9 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  United States 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Marketing year 2001 
 
Non-Product-Specific AMS 
 
Measure type Non-product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays Other non-
product-specific 
support  
 
($ million) Associated 
fees/levies Total non-product-
specific support 
 
 
($ million) Data sources and comments 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
 
Irrigation on Bureau of Reclamation 
Projects in 17 Western States: 
 
Estimated water subsidies-      
 
 
1986  543.3   Estimate provided to the Honorable George Miller, Chairman, Subcommittee 
on Water and Power Resource s, 24 February 1988, by the U.S. Department of 
Interior.  This was in answer to the question: "What is the average annual 
irrigation subsidy provided through the Re clamation program?"  An answer was 
included for 1986. 
 
 Amount assumed for each year: 
 
1986 
1987 
1988 
1986-88 
1995 revised  
1996 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000 
2001   
 
543.3 
543.3 
543.3 543.3 
379.5 
379.5 
348.5 
348.5 
315.7 
315.7 
300.0   
 
543.3 
543.3 
543.3 543.3 
379.5 
379.5 
348.5 
348.5 
315.7 
315.7 
300.0  
 
Estimates do not exist fo r each year, so the 1986 estimate was assumed for 
1986-1988. 
  
Data for 1995 and 1996 have been revise d based on a new estimate for 1994.  
Estimates after 1996 are calculated by the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) based 
on a “debt financing method.”  A long-te rm interest rate is applied to the 
outstanding unpaid balance of capital investment by the Government in 
irrigation faciliti es to obtain the subsidy.  Irrigators repay the principal but not 
the interest on the project debt.  Estimates do not exist for each year, so the 
1997 estimate was also assumed for 1998,  and the 1999 estimate was assumed 
for 2000.  
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specific 
budgetary 
outlays Other non-
product-specific 
support  
 
($ million) Associated 
fees/levies Total non-product-
specific support 
 
 
($ million) Data sources and comments 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
Net Federal budget outlays for 
grazing livestock on Federal Land 
  (fiscal year data are used) 
 
1986 
1987 
1988 
1986-88 avg. 
1995  
1996 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000 
2001 
 
Crop and revenue insurance 
subsidized by the Federal Crop 
Insurance Corporation: 
 (crop year data are used)  
 
    Indemnities paid to farmers: 
1986 
1987 
1988 
1986-88 avg. 
 
1995 
1996 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000 
2001 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
49.600 
49.800 
48.800 
49.400 71.282 
72.422 
73.177 
73.454 
77.420 
72.726 
83.692 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
615.742  
369.844  
1,067.611  
684.399  
 
1,566.522  
1,492.804  
991.261 
1,675.581 
2,432.192 
2,587.639 
2,958.074 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
23.400 
22.500 
25.000 
23.633 26.285 
21.973 
22.369 
22.458 
22.487 
21.262 
18.279 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
291.649  277.506  
328.403  
299.186  
 
653.864 
856.749 
872.106 
928.615 
918.098 
1,191.869 
1,187.702  
 
 
 
26.200 
27.300 
23.800 
25.767 44.997 
50.449 
50.808 
50.996 
54.933 
51.464 
65.413 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
324.093  
92.338  
739.208  
385.213  
 
912.658  
636.055 
119.155 
746.966 
1,514.094 
1,395.770 
1,770.372 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
The data are net budget outlays for livesto ck grazing on public range land in 16 
Western States operated by the Forest Service (FS) and Bureau of Land 
Management (BLM).  The net budget outla ys include (as negative outlays) the 
receipts for fees paid by livestock pr oducers, but do not include other "non-fee" 
costs paid by the producers, such as fo r building and maintaining water supplies 
and fences.  Including the other non-fee costs could reduce the net outlay 
figure, perhaps to zero.  Fiscal year data are used. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Producers may choose one of the various  types of crop yield or revenue 
insurance plans made available each year.  The contracted-for insurance 
premiums are subsidized.  The value of th e subsidy is reflected in the net value 
of the indemnities paid to producers fo r losses less the amount of the producer-
paid premium.  Indemnities are paid whenever actual yield or revenue falls 
below the guarantee level. 
 
The chosen guarantee (coverage) level commonly ranges from 50% and 75% of 
the historical average yield or expected revenue.  Some new coverage levels 
have been offered at the 85% level.  This data also includes information for the 
Group Risk Plan (GRP), introduced in 1993, and the Group Risk Income 
Protection (GRIP) and Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) plan, both introduced in 
1999.  GRP and GRIP indemnities are paid  when county-wide results fall below 
the guarantee level that ranges up as hi gh as 90% of expected yield or revenue. 
 
  
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Measure type Non-product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays Other non-
product-specific 
support  
 
($ million) Associated 
fees/levies Total non-product-
specific support 
 
 
($ million) Data sources and comments 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
Multi-year crop disaster payments 
1998 
1999 
2000 
2001 
 
 
  
 
 
 
State credit programs: 
 
1986 
1987 
1988 
1986-88 avg. 
 
 
 
 
 
1995 
1996 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000 
2001 
 
Crop market loss assistance 
payments 
1998 
1999 
2000 
2001   
577.349 
0 
0 
0 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
28.661  
49.962  
51.172  
43.265  
 
 
 
 
 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
 
 
 
2,811.340 
5,467.670 
5,463.457 
4,639.822 
    
577.349  
0 
0 
0 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
28.661  
49.962  
51.172  
43.265  
 
 
 
 
 
48.806  
48.806  
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
48.806 
 
 
 
2,811.340 
5,467.670 
5,463.457 
4,639.822   
The Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental  Appropriations Act, 
1999 (P.L. 105-277, October 21, 1998) included a provision (Section 1102) for 
making crop disaster payments conditional on having experienced multi-year 
losses.  As implemented, payments we re based on the amount of indemnities 
from crop insurance or non-insured assistance programs during 1994-98.  
Multi-year payments are reported here, along with crop insurance benefits, 
because eligibility was not based on the 30% loss criteria required for the green box. 
 
 
 
 
Various credit-related programs for agriculture are funded by State 
governments to: supplement Federal progr ams, promote the "family farm," 
assist during economic downturns, and promote new enterprises and 
technological innovations.  Th e data come from results of a mail survey by the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic  Research Service, reported by G. 
B. Wallace and others in "State Cred it Subsidy Programs for Agriculture," 
Agricultural Income and Finance Situation and Outlook Report, pp. 10-14 
(December 1990). 
 
Amount for fiscal years 1995-2001 are the la test available estim ates, based on a 
survey for fiscal year 1994. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Producers who received fiscal year  2000 production flexibility contract 
payments (PFC) received additional ma rket loss payments (MLA) in proportion 
to the amount of their PFC payments.  This was required by the Agricultural 
Risk Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-224).  
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specific 
budgetary 
outlays Other non-
product-specific 
support  
 
($ million) Associated 
fees/levies Total non-product-
specific support 
 
 
($ million) Data sources and comments 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
Emergency loans for seed producers 
 
1999 
2000 
2001 
 
 
 
Farm storage facility loan program 
1999 
2000 
2001  
  
 
2.918 
0.000 
0.000 
 
 
  
1.392 
2.814 
3.741    
 
2.918 
0.000 
0.000 
 
 
  
1.392 
2.814 
3.741  
 
Provides interest-free loans to producers of 1999 crop grass, forage, vegetable, 
or sorghum seed who did not receive paym ent for contracts with a large private 
turf, forage, and alfalfa seed company as  a result of bankruptcy.  The program 
was authorized by the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-224; 
June 22, 2000). 
  
Provides low-cost financing for farmers to build or upgrade on-farm grain 
storage and handling facilities.  Th e program is authorized under the 
Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act of 1949.  It was discontinued in the 
early 1980s and re-established in FY2000. 
 
Total non-product-specific  
Support: 
1986 
1987 
1988 
1986-88 avg. 
 
1995 
1996 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000 
2001  
  
 
 
694.003  
469.606  
1,167.583  
777.064  
 
1,686.610  
1,614.032 
1,113.244 
5,186.497 
8,030.398 
8,172.628 
7,734.135   
 
 
543.300  
543.300  
543.300  
543.300  
 
379.498 
379.498 
348.459 
348.459 
315.700 
315.700 
300.000 
  
 
 
315.049  
300.006  
353.403  
322.819  
 
680.149 
878.722 
894.475 
951.073 
940.585 
1,213.131 
1,205.981  
 
 
922.254  
712.900  
1,357.480  
997.545  
 
1,385.959 
1,114.808 
567.228 
4,583.916 
7,405.513 
7,278.011 
6,828.154    
 
 
AMS does not need to be included in the Current AMS because the calculated 
amount is less that 5 percent of value of production. 
 
(0.05*$142,930 mil. = $7,146 mil. in 1986-88) 
 
(0.05*$190,110 million = $9,505 million in 1995) 
(0.05*$205,701 million = $10,285 million in 1996) 
(0.05*$203,884 million = $10,194 million in 1997) 
(0.05*$190,886 million = $9,544 million in 1998) 
(0.05*$184,735 million = $9,237 million in 1999) 
(0.05*$189,520 million = $9,476 million in 2000) 
(0.05*$198,502 million = $9,925 million in 2001) 
 
 
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