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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (254686)	6/16/2008 8:29:01 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793725

usnews.com Perhaps more significant, the new bill has a much stronger focus on matters that happen to bear directly on those affected by rising food prices. Two thirds of the funding, an estimated $209 billion, will go to food programs (food stamps, mainly). Food banks will get an injection of $250 million annually. There will also be $10 billion for new nutrition programs, including $1 billion for organic programs and fruit and vegetable farms. Compared with the government's annual spending on subsidies, those numbers are small. But they do represent an increase from the last farm bill, passed in 2002.