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EWG’s renowned farm subsidy database reveals that taxpayer support goes mostly to large, profitable operations, not to sustainable family farms that truly need the help. We’re working to change a badly broken system.
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View and Download the report here: EWG Corn Ethanol Energy Security
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As farmers head to the fields to harvest corn, soybeans and other crops that they know will bring ruinously low prices at the local grain elevator, Congressional leaders are quietly arranging a pre-election infusion of farm subsidy aid, atop billions in emergency funds already added this year.
Read MoreView and Download the report here: Bumper Crop
Read MoreTaxpayers may not realize it, but the billions they spend on subsidies to save family farms may be hastening their demise.
Read MoreView and Download the report here: Freedom to Farm in Iowa
Read MoreThe new "Freedom to Farm" subsidy contract payments that many farmers believe are guaranteed for the next 7 years will probably be slashed if Congress approves a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, according to a new study. Conservation Reserve Program contract payments will also be vulnerable to cuts under the amendment, which will also make it much harder for Congress to provide farm disaster aid.
Read MoreLast year, the House of Representatives passed the most sweeping bill to weaken Federal protection of wetlands ever considered by Congress. This bill passed as part of H.R.
Read MoreThe "Freedom to Farm" legislation, approved by a partisan vote of the House Agriculture Committee, will be taken up by the House of Representatives soon after it reconvenes on Tuesday, February 27.
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Since 1985, agricultural lawmakers have defended payment of more than $108 billion in federal subsidies to farmers by arguing that the payments help to protect the environment.
Read MoreOver the past 10 years, American taxpayers made payments totaling $108.9 billion through Federal farm subsidy programs.
Read MoreAmerican taxpayers are sending hundreds of millions of dollars in Federal farm subsidy checks every year to a handful of absentee owners, corporations and other "farmers" who live smack in the middle of the country's biggest cities.
Read MoreIt is well established in the economic literature that Federal farm assistance programs enhance the value of all U.S. farmland. According to USDA, farm subsidies have enhanced farmland values on average between 15 and 20 percent.
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