21.   Currently, farmers who participate in farm programs must meet government-imposed planting requirements.

22.   Especially impressive were their successful efforts to overhaul the farm subsidy program and ease regulations in the telecommunications business.

23.   Espy says it will result in less red tape and no more running around from office to office for farmers enrolled in federal farm programs.

24.   Environmental regulation and research, rural development and farm credit programs would cease.

25.   Farm programs -- especially the half-century-old peanut program -- will be challenged with Republicans on the prowl for spending cuts.

26.   Farm programs also cost consumers in the form of higher taxes.

27.   Farm programs are part of that package.

28.   Farm programs are intended to boost incomes for producers of dairy products and crops through a bewildering array of barriers to the free flow of goods and prices.

29.   Farmers in this region offer many ideas about how to alter the farm programs to reduce their costs and make them more useful.

30.   Federal farm programs, begun over half a century ago, have not stemmed the exodus of Americans from the farm.