41.   The Federal Conservation Reserve Program, under which farmers are paid to preserve fallow land, has helped, Robinson said.

42.   The federal government establishes the price processors pay farmers for milk.

43.   The House bill would pay farmers fixed but declining subsidies over seven years, while the Senate version would pay subsidies only during years of low grain prices.

44.   The House scrapped that program, and voted instead to pay farmers fixed but declining payments over seven years.

45.   The legislation, the Agricultural Transition Act, would end Depression-era programs that pay farmers not to plant crops in certain fields.

46.   The notion of paying farmers to take care of their land troubles taxpayer advocates, including some groups that usually align with environmentalists.

47.   The organic foods will be phased in with the traditional pizza, burgers and Taco Bell burritos as grant money comes in to pay organic farmers.

48.   The plan, called an Economic Order Quantity, is similar to the way the federal government pays farmers not to harvest certain crops.

49.   The program pays farmers to take highly erodible farmland out of production.

50.   The White House wants to retain a subsidy program that pays farmers only if market prices are weak.