Michigan: A State at the Intersection of the Debate Over Full Planting Flexibility
By Suzanne Thornsbury, Lourdes Martinez, and David
Schweikhardt. ERS project representative: Barry Krissoff
Contractor and Cooperator Report No. (CCR-29) 58 pp,
February 2007
Greater flexibility in U.S. farm programs, with elimination of the restriction on the planting of fruit and vegetable crops, is likely to be a major issue in congressional farm policy discussions in 2007. Michigan is a State with a wide range of fruits, vegetables, wild rice, and program crops planted under the current policy. To capture the diversity of situations that would apply among crops covered by the current policy, this research has examined a broad set of Michigan fruit, vegetable, and wild rice crops (dry beans, pickling cucumbers, processing tomatoes, fresh market tomatoes, squash, and blueberries).
Disclaimer: This study was conducted by Michigan State University under
research grant 43-3AEK-5-80048 with the Economic Research
Service and partially funded by a grant from the California Institute
for the Study of Specialty Crops. The views expressed are those of
the authors and not necessarily those of ERS or USDA.
Keywords: Michigan, agricultural policy, planting restrictions, fruits, vegetables, ERS, USDA
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Updated date: February 22, 2007
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