farm subsidies

‘Temporary’ farm subsidy program may finally meet the reaper If we're going to have austerity, can't we at least start with giveaways like this?

So the government has attached to the new Iraq spending bill millions in subsidies for peanut farmers to help them store huge amounts of peanuts in warehouses. Evidently, they need the "relief" while they negotiate the best price with companies such as Peter Pan. The farmers interviewed on the...