Farm subsidies are intended to help struggling family farmers. Instead, they harm them by exclud­ing them from most subsidies, financing the con­solidation of family farms, and raising land values to levels that prevent young people from entering farming.
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Agricultural subsidy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An agricultural subsidy is a governmental subsidy paid to farmers and agribusinesses to supplement their income, manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and influence the cost and supply of s...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy
In this worldview, it was not the farmers who pushed for subsidies but those evil northeastern bankers wanting to protect the loans to the big cash crop farmers.; Don't forget our good friends at places like Deere and Caterpillar. ... But I think we might actually have some luck getting farm subsidies repealed...What am I saying?
reason.com/blog/2009/01/27/agricultural-subsidies-corpo... reason.com/blog/2009/01/27/agricultural-subsidies-corpora
Subsidies are not good for any industry. They encourage inefficient behavior and keep businesses from adapting to market changes. Many family farmers can't stand government interference. ... How Farm Subsidies Harm Taxpayers, Consumers, and Farmers, Too by Brian M. Riedl; Heritage Foundation...
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In this commentary, former US President Jimmy Carter urges Congress to reform the 1933 farm bill to eliminate the subsidies that accrue to the largest and richest agricultural producers in the US. The subsidies hurt both poor US farmers as well as producers in developing countries.
www.globalpolicy.org/social-and-economic-policy/interna... www.globalpolicy.org/social-and-economic-policy/international-trade-and-development-1-57/agricultural-subsidies.html
House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Charlie Stenholm (D-Tx) proclaimed that his Committee's new farm bill "is a good deal for agriculture and a good deal for taxpayers." Under this bill, farm subsidies will soar about $74 billion above 10-year baseline agriculture spending projections, not including any...
www.cato.org/research/articles/ce082301.html
Instead of helping farmers stay on the land, today's farm subsidies actually provide capital liquidity to the largest and wealthiest mega-farmers, enabling them to outbid their small and medium-sized neighbors for farmland.
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Why U.S. Farm Subsidies Are Bad for the World; They make it possible for us to export food so cheaply that farmers in poorer nations can't possibly compete. ... That's not good news for farmers in Jamaica, among many others, whose problems stem not from free trade but from the lack of it.
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Farmers had a record year for sales and profits in 2004. Yet government subsidies are up 40%. Is this good policy? ... 'I struggle with the same question: how the hell can you have such high government payments if farmers had such a great year?' ... ...Farm groups say the subsidies provide for a stable food supply,
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Source: Dr. Robert Goodman; Alabama Cooperative Extension System Farm Economist and Auburn University Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics; (334) 844-5633; Why are U.S. farmers, even the most highly efficient ones, still so dependent on farm subsidies? "They cause some bad things to happen along with the good,
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