Following the disaster of the 1996 Farm Bill, Congress converted emergency payments into new commodity programs designed to provide farmers direct payments and counter-cyclical support when the market dipped. These costly programs helped keep farmers on the land but did little to address the market failure that was paying farmers below cost-of-production prices.
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