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To: average joe who wrote (81955)10/22/2011 3:30:02 PM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 218619
 
USDA distributes between $10 billion and $30 billion in cash subsidies to farmers and owners of farmland each year.1 The particular amount depends on market prices for crops, the level of disaster payments, and other factors. More than 90 percent of agriculture subsidies go to farmers of five crops—wheat, corn, soybeans, rice, and cotton.2 More than 800,000 farmers and landowners receive subsidies, but the payments are heavily tilted toward the largest producers.3

Ahttp://www.downsizinggovernment.org/agriculture/subsidies

Agriculture is the most distorted sector in the world. Brazil has been fighting against this for decades.