11. A plant might even pay a farmer to quit raising animals or quit farming, to the economic advantage of each, she said. 12. Each month, under compact rules, the commission sets a minimum price that processors have to pay farmers for their milk, regardless of the federal price. 13. Farmers are being paid to allow their fields to be flooded during high water. 14. Federal government pays farmers rent for planting crops such as grasses or trees that conserve the soil on farmland threatened by erosion. 15. Farmers would be paid for government-subsidized water rights lost because of species protection. 16. For most crops, eliminates a system of paying farmers not to plant certain fields, and paying them extra when crop prices are low. 17. For years, the National Institute on Drug Abuse has paid a farmer at the University of Mississippi to grow marijuana for research, primarily studies on addiction. 18. Forty percent of the acreage would come from paying farmers not to sell their land to private developers. 19. He also has targeted agriculture subsidies, wanting to phase out the crop support system that pays farmers. 20. Healy and his staff think the best way to reduce the milk surplus is to cap the amount of milk for which dairy farmers would be paid more. |