G.A. "Art" Barnaby, Jr.

Emeritus: Crop Insurance, Policy

Emeritus Professor
Kansas State University

Art Barnaby, Emeritus Professor, is now retired. 

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Documents & Presentations by G.A. "Art" Barnaby, Jr.
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2018 Farm Bill

Presented at 2018 Ag Lenders Conference, Garden City and Manhattan, KS. 

October 1, 2018
USDA Market Facilitation Program

K-State risk management specialist Art Barnaby offers his take on who gains, and who doesn't, from the USDA's Market Facilitation Program...the trade tariff relief payments that producers can apply for this fall:  he has run a comparative price analysis for corn, sorghum, soybeans and minor oilseeds as the basis for his observations.

September 6, 2018
9. Economic Conditions and The Title 1 Programs August 1, 2018
19. The VSR Track Record for 2018 Kansas HRW Wheat Futures August 1, 2018
20. No Call in Revenue Protection (RP) Crop Insurance August 1, 2018
Trade Tariff Relief

K-State risk management specialist Art Barnaby raises several important questions about the just-announced USDA relief program for agricultural producers who have been adversely affected by the imposition of trade tariffs...especially the Market Facilitation Program, which is intended to provide one-time payments to producers of select commodities, including most major grain crops

July 26, 2018
2018 Farm Bill Review

K-State risk management specialist Art Barnaby offers his observations on the commodity title and crop insurance components of the 2018 Farm Bill, with the House and Senate versions now in conference committee...he says that producers should especially be interested in how the compromise version handles the update in crop base acres for program payment purposes.

July 3, 2018
ARC Payments

K-State risk management specialist Art Barnaby talks about the just-updated county-by-county estimates on A-R-C program payments for wheat producers on the 2017 crop, which will be issued this fall...he also addresses the issue of whether grain farmers are getting their futures contract orders appropriately filled in the current electronic trading format.

May 22, 2018
2018 Farm Bill

K-State risk management specialist Art Barnaby comments on a couple of proposals in the 2018 farm bill deliberations that have his full attention:  one suggesting a change in how crop acreage base is determined for program payment purposes, the other regarding the elimination of the harvest price option in crop insurance policies.

May 18, 2018
Crop Insurance

K-State risk management specialist Art Barnaby offers final thoughts on enrolling 2018 summer field crops in crop insurance, stressing that paring back on coverage as a cost-cutting move is not a good idea. He also comments on what producers were saying about the future of the crop insurance program at the series of Farm Bill Forums co-hosted by K-State in recent weeks. 
 

March 15, 2018