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The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released its updated analysis of government payments. It reports that about ⅔ of the $12.2 billion in farm payments made in 2002 went to 10% of the recipients. ... November 26, 2009 Home » Magazine Articles » Farm Subsidy Payments...
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cornandsoybeandigest.com/mag/soybean_farm_subsidy_payme...
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From 1995 to 2005, the top 10 percent of recipients were paid 73 percent of all USDA subsidies. The Top 1% of Subsidy Recipients got 24% of all the money transfered from government coffers to private farmers. ... Environmental Working Group Farm Subsidy Database: USDA ... Pct. of Payments by Payment per Recipient...
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www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1002997
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Hello, welcome to FarmSubsidy.org, a website that will help you find out who gets what in farm subsidies from the European Union, from small farmers to big multinational companies. It is a non-profit initiative, part of the FollowTheMoney.eu family.
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www.farmsubsidy.org/
www.farmsubsidy.org/
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But now, for the first time, new Agriculture Department data makes it easier to see exactly who benefits from the nation's generous farm subsidy program. ... According to EWG's analysis of the new data, just 10 percent of farmers received 66 percent of federal farm payments from 2002-2005. But those figures don't...
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www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19174311/
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Minister says more information on subsidy payments will be made available under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act. ... Rural Development Minister Ross Finnie today confirmed that more information about farm subsidy payments will be published under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act.
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www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2005/01/12132833
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There are better ways to control U.S. farm subsidy costs than President Barack Obama's proposal to limit access to so-called direct payments, two senators said on Tuesday, suggesting ... Direct payments, which total $5.2 billion a year, are one of the three subsidies in the farm program.
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www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5226VV20090...
www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5226VV20090303
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The checks to Matthews and other landowners were intended 10 years ago as a first step toward eventually eliminating costly, decades-old farm subsidies. Instead, the payments have grown into an even larger subsidy that benefits millionaire landowners, foreign speculators and absentee landlords, as well as farmers.
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/AR2006070100962.html
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Two farm-group spokesmen said the president apparently meant a farm subsidy known as direct payments that was created in 2002 and is made regardless of crop prices or farm profits.
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www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/obama-big-farm-subsidy...
www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/obama-big-farm-subsidy-direct-payments.php
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New Light Shed on Farm Subsidy Payments, Agriculture Department's new data format sheds light on wealthy farm subsidy beneficiaries ... But now, for the first time, new Agriculture Department data makes it easier to see exactly who benefits from the nation's generous farm subsidy program.
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www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2007Jun11/0,4675...
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