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  • From: Art Petrzelka <art AT complum.com>
  • To: sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Whole grains and small scale grain production
  • Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:45:36 -0000

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:34, robert schuler wrote:
> Pat. You will be pleased to know that the overwhelming majority of
> subsidies
> are going to small and medium sized farms. The reason you don't hear much
> about

Robert, I had to do some research because what you said didn't match
what I've been hearing all the time.

>From the USDA Web site, I couldn't find the information that you
referred to.

Fortunately, Google came to the rescue, and I got a page listing
subsidies per state, and percentage of farms getting subsidies. Note
that this percentage would not account for farms used mostly for
pasture, farms under 40 acres, or a number of other categories.
including my farm. My 287 acre farm is listed as Non-Ag on the NRCS soil
maps.
http://www.ewg.org/farm/subsidies/farms_by_state.php

Very few states show a majority of farmers receiving payments.

The chart on payment concentration was also very interesting. 5% of the
payment recipients got away with half the money.
http://www.ewg.org/farm/concentrationtable.php?fips=00000

I am in favor of doing away with farm subsidies entirely. It just makes
the rich richer, and the poor homeless and hungry.
--
Art Petrzelka
Amana, Iowa, USA





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