91.   The farm program no doubt is one of the entitlement programs that reformers would like to see gutted.

92.   The first recorded farm program is described in the Old Testament of the Bible.

93.   The farm lobby has been too weak to gain passage of the farm program in recent years without alliances with environmentalists and supporters of programs such as food stamps.

94.   The farm program provides an inspiring precedent.

95.   The House Agriculture Committee gave up trying to radically reform farm programs on Wednesday evening as Republican members from cotton-growing states continued to defy their leadership.

96.   The final result is high-grade fertilizer for use in the gardening and farm programs.

97.   The huge budget bill would overhaul most farm subsidy programs, particularly for grain and cotton crops.

98.   The money was the fruit of a class-action settlement this year intended to amend decades of discrimination in the federal farm lending program.

99.   The politics may not be right for scrapping the old farm programs entirely, however.

100.   The other plan would continue the current farm program, which bases payments on market prices, only at a reduced rate.