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But there is another, more subtle but no less unjust, policy that discriminates against Latino farmers, and every five years it is debated openly in Congress: the way billions of dollars in federal farm subsidies are distributed.
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The issue of concern is not consolidation per se, but whether the federal government should continue to subsidize these purchases through farm subsidies and whether multimillion-dollar agricultural corporations should continue to receive welfare payments.
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Farm subsidy programs enrich agribusinesses and other non-farmers at the expense of family farmers, the farm economy, and taxpayers. With federal spending spiraling out of control and the budget deficit approaching $500 billion, taxpayers can no longer afford to pay farm subsidies to the rich and famous. ... Yet a recent U.S.
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Critics complain that municipal and state governments are getting subsidies intended for struggling small farmers in the private sector. Creative local planners have found many ways to tap into the federal program. ... But according to USDA spokesman Dan Stewart, the Farm Service Agency, which doles out the money,
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The cornerstone of the multibillion-dollar system of federal farm subsidies is an iconic image of the struggling family farmer: small, powerless against Mother Nature, tied to the land by blood. ... In the past five years, the Phippses have also received about $357,000 in federal subsidies.
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CDI Russia Weekly #209 - US Federal Farm Subsidies May Impact Russian, World Agricultural Markets ... #12; US Federal Farm Subsidies May Impact Russian, World Agricultural Markets; Izvestiya; 31 May 2002; [translation for personal use only]; Article by Igor Popov: "Ongoing Wheat War"
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But because wheat is what is known as a "program" crop, Davis, president of the Washington Farmers Union, receives substantial subsidies from the federal government. ... But when payments from federal conservation and farm programs are factored in, Davis said, the total sum is "going to be a pretty high number."
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Nationwide, the federal government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all, ... 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,
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Mulch has served well as a forum for EWG's work on biofuels, conservation, farm subsidies and the impact modern agriculture has on the environment. However, we're proud to announce the launch of our new online property, AgMag. ... Despite lavish federal subsidies and tax breaks, the ethanol industry has struggled to...
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