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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced today that his agency will increase the amount paid for dairy products through the Dairy Product Price Support Program. Vilsack estimates that that the increases, which will be in play from August 1 to October 31, will increase dairy farmer revenue nationally by $243 million.
“The price increase announced [...]

Dead people are receiving farm-subsidy checks long after they’ve bought the farm.

That news created a stir this week as the 2007 Farm Bill goes up for a critical vote on Thursday amid intense scrutiny of farm-program payments.

The Government Accountability Office recently released a report showing that during a six-year period, nearly $1.1 billion was distributed [...]

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today responded to a widely circulated Iowa Independent Story on the former Massachusetts governor’s 1994 calls for cuts to farm subsidies and “virtual" elimination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“Governor Romney believes that investing in agriculture is key to our economy and families.  America’s farmers not only provide food for [...]

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the front-runner in Iowa, called for the "virtual elimination" of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and cuts to farm subsides in his failed 1994 U.S. Senate race against Ted Kennedy.
Romney opponents are now are citing a debate and several Boston news articles in which the former Massachusetts governor said, among other things, [...]