{"id":43804,"date":"2018-06-15T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43804"},"modified":"2018-06-14T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:29:20","slug":"looking-at-us-farm-subsidy-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/looking-at-us-farm-subsidy-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at US farm subsidy claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter, Chris Auld, an economics professor at the University of Victoria explains why Canadian journalists should stop using the $22 billion figure for US farm subsidies to justify Canada&#8217;s unjustifiable supply management regime:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s been widely reported that the U.S. subsidizes dairy farms $22B per year, or 71% of revenues.  Which seems&#8230; large.  That figure comes from a report paid for by the Dairy Farmers of Canada by a small consulting firm.  (<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2v4xkOZRBU\">https:\/\/t.co\/2v4xkOZRBU<\/a>). 1\/5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/chMnPeRMZx\">pic.twitter.com\/chMnPeRMZx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Auld (@Chris_Auld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chris_Auld\/status\/1006564336796495872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If we follow their source to pg 111 of the cited USDA document, we find what they&#39;re counting as the $225B of &quot;agricultural subsidies&quot; includes absolutely everything in the USDA&#39;s budget!  More than half goes to SNAP (&quot;food stamps&quot;) and other anti-poverty programs.    2\/5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tPhR3Qtb6d\">pic.twitter.com\/tPhR3Qtb6d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Auld (@Chris_Auld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chris_Auld\/status\/1006564338910425088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And much of the remainder, including programs like food safety, the forest service, and research, are not agricultural subsidies, either.  See pages 210-211 here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BBmjD41AWZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/BBmjD41AWZ<\/a> 3\/5<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Auld (@Chris_Auld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chris_Auld\/status\/1006564341821272065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some of what&#39;s left is subsidies, but the report just takes 10.54% of the total as allocated to dairy since that&#39;s the percentage of dairy in U.S. agriculture.  What most people would think of as actual &quot;dairy subsidies,&quot; direct or indirect payments to dairy farmers, 4\/5<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Auld (@Chris_Auld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chris_Auld\/status\/1006564342840479750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">are a trivial fraction of the staggering sums claimed in this report.  And if we calculated Canadian &quot;dairy subsidies&quot; in the same silly manner, we&#39;d wind up with similarly vast sums.  This figure is rubbish and journalists in particular should stop repeating it. 5\/5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hg0M3vpOuB\">pic.twitter.com\/Hg0M3vpOuB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Auld (@Chris_Auld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chris_Auld\/status\/1006564343733817344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter, Chris Auld, an economics professor at the University of Victoria explains why Canadian journalists should stop using the $22 billion figure for US farm subsidies to justify Canada&#8217;s unjustifiable supply management regime: It&#39;s been widely reported that the U.S. subsidizes dairy farms $22B per year, or 71% of revenues. Which seems&#8230; large. 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