摘要：Loan Deficiency Payments or LDPs providevaluable price protection in times of low grainprices. As market prices fall below government-established loan rates, farmers areeligible to collect the difference between theloan rate and the posted county price. Inprinciple, the program assures farmers ofreceiving the commodity loan rate for theircrop. Along with traditional crops like wheat and feedgrains, the LDP program exists for many minoroilseed crops as well. Like the traditional crops,loan rates for minor crops are set at the countylevel. On a daily basis, the USDA's FarmService Agency (FSA) computes a "postedcounty price" which serves as a measure of thelocal price for the crop.
