41.   Small family farmers are being driven out by flat grain prices, kept artificially low in part by government subsidies that encourage overproduction.

42.   Some family farmers will not survive for long.

43.   Solving the environmental problems, they say, will only help the mega-farms intensify their efforts to take the pork market away from family farmers.

44.   Supporters said the amendment, attached to a bankruptcy reform bill, addresses the problem of market concentration in the agricultural sector that is edging out family farmers.

45.   That is apparent from conversations with family farmers in the warring regions.

46.   That system divided the collective land among individual households, creating a nation of small family farmers and encouraging efficiency.

47.   The appointment of Veneman could also raise concerns among family farmers, whose numbers have been dwindling.

48.   The anti-sugar program coalition said their campaign is aimed at countering the notion that the federal system protects small family farmers.

49.   The bottom line, the senators said, is that the bill must protect family farmers, who need the subsidies to stay in business.

50.   The coastal equivalent of family farmers, many work as their fathers and grandfathers did, on water bottoms leased from the state and inherited like liquid land.