Ad hoc government assistance has become an increasingly important part of the farm safety net. Alejandro Plastina, the director of the Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center at the University of Missouri, says ad hoc payments accounted for about 12 percent of net farm income from 2018 through 2024, compared with about two percent […]
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