date:Dec 10, 2012
e Senate, still unreconciled. Both aimed to cut farm spending a bit: over ten years, by $35 billion and $23 billion respectively. The bills also differ in the mechanisms they propose to support farmers. Southern peanut and rice farmers complain the Senates bill would make them lose out relative to Midwestern wheat and soya growers.
At the moment negotiations over the fiscal cliff are consuming all the political air. From soil conservation to price supports to trade, American farm policies are a