31. Seed companies are both helped and hurt by high grain prices, because they must pay farmers who produce seed the same price the farmers would get for grain. 32. Some have not paid farmers for their crops in two years. 33. Since owning factories is far more profitable than farming, a number of residents pay farmers from poorer provinces to till their fields. 34. Some will pay the farmer to do the dirty work. 35. Such orders determine how much processors, like those who make cheese and dried milk, must pay farmers for raw milk. 36. That means paying farmers to sign deed restrictions agreeing to keep their land in agriculture. 37. The board tends to pay farmers less than they would receive in the free market during boom years. 38. The case was filed in the Northern District of Texas because an Arlington, Texas, milk cooperative hired the drivers and paid the farmers. 39. The drought bailout, in fact, threatens to make things worse by paying some farmers to produce just as Uncle Sam is contemplating paying others not to. 40. The federal government would pay bonuses to the hospitals if they trained fewer doctors, just as it once paid corn farmers not to grow corn. |