Skewing Farm Output The activist group Farm Action is usually slaying mythical creatures like Big Ag or the $750 million checkoff programs used by farm organizations to promote research and marketing. Their typical paean is the small farmer, but their latest focus is farm program structure and the growing U.S. agricultural trade deficit. The group claims that converting less that 0.5 percent of U.S. farmland from growing program crops (largely corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton, rice) and instead use them to grow fruits, vegetables and legumes that the trade deficit can be reversed. It is true that the multi-billion-dollar subsidies from Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) support the production of a handful of crops...