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Farm revenue assurance
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[MARCH 14, 2006]
URBANA -- Farm revenue assurance, an
alternative to the current mechanisms for distributing farm program
benefits, will be the topic of the first annual Gardner Endowed
Chair Agricultural Policy Lecture at the University of Illinois
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
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"Canada's Experience with Farm Revenue Insurance: Lessons for
Future U.S. Farm Policy?" will be delivered by Douglas Hedley,
former assistant deputy minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada. The lecture will be at 3:30 p.m. April 6 in the Monsanto
Room of the ACES Library. "With the considerable interest
around the state in some form of a farm revenue assurance
program as a possible alternative to the current mechanisms for
distributing farm program benefits, this seminar should be very
timely," said Robert L. Thompson, who holds the Gardner Chair in
Agricultural Policy at the U of I.
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 "Hedley recently retired from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
where over many years he played a central role in development of
Canada's farm income stabilization and risk management programs. He
was also involved in developing Canada's policies on agriculture and
the environment, food safety, trade, innovation, and renewal."
Hedley, an agricultural economist, currently serves as executive
director of the Canadian Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary
Medicine.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
[University
of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental
Sciences news release]
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