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Subject: Re: [OM] Redneck
From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:07:14 +0100 (CET)
Yeah, lots of families here:

http://farm.ewg.org/top_recips.php?fips=00000&progcode=total


Op Wo, 6 november, 2013 13:52, schreef Ken Norton:
> I'm still trying to find a large corporate farm. It's strange, because
> living in Iowa where a quarter of the world's top grade soil is located,
> you'd think that every acre would be owned by some multinational company.
>
> The reality is that a Large Corporate Farm here is a family owned
> operation
> of a couple thousand acres where half might be owned and half rented. It's
> incorporated, yes, but the owners are the farming family itself.
>
> The government may pay for some land to be set aside, but all that does is
> provide a budget buffer for the farmer. My FIL never took a subsidy,
> because he always found other ways to make idle land earn money.
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2013, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
>> Health programs benefit ordinary people and are a basic part of a
>> civilised society. Farm subsidies benefit mainly large corporate farms.
>
>
>
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