11.   American farmers are not losing their subsidy payments straight away.

12.   American farmers have a say, too.

13.   American farmers have always been good at tilling the land.

14.   American farmers have done less well at managing the business of farming.

15.   American farmers routinely use five hormones, including progesterone and testosterone, to make cattle grow faster and produce more milk.

16.   American farmers swear by the product, which saves time and expense and makes their fields far more productive.

17.   Amid the concern about world population growth, one glimpses opportunity for American farmers.

18.   And American dairy farmers had just received approval to inject their cows with recombinant bovine growth hormone, a genetically engineered hormone that increases milk production.

19.   And American farmers once used them to hunt rats.

20.   And then there are all those unhappy American farmers, who cannot agree among themselves precisely what the United States should be trying to get out of these negotiations.