COSTS OF PRODUCTION.

SEC. 2512. COSTS OF PRODUCTION. (a) Improving the Accuracy of Commodity Program Budget Forecasts.— Congress finds that, to improve the accuracy of104 STAT. 4074 commodity program benefit forecasts, the Secretary of Agriculture should designate a single organization to manage its commodity program forecasting and establish a quality control program to— (1) systematically identify the source of forecasting errors; (2) maintain records of data used for supply and demand forecasts; (3) document its forecasting methods; and (4) correct weaknesses in its various forecasting components. (b) Return on Assets.— The Secretary of Agriculture shall annually publish a report analyzing the return on assets resulting from the production of upland cotton, rice, wheat, corn, oats, barley, grain sorghum, soybeans, peanuts, sugar from sugar beets, and raw sugar from sugar cane. In conducting this analysis, the Secretary shall consider returns from agricultural price support programs, the effects of agricultural price support programs on cost of production, the factors currently used in Department of Agriculture cost of production data, current value of land, and any other information that he considers necessary to reflect accurately return on the production of such crops.