1. At a time when farmers ought to be signing up for the federal program that subsidizes many farmers, there is no program to enroll in. 2. Europe, with its tradition of heavily subsidizing farmers, is reluctant to concentrate too much on agriculture and wants to include topics like environmental protection and antitrust policy. 3. Every five or six years Congress argues over how to subsidize farmers. 4. Grain markets are influenced by international factors and as long as other countries continue to subsidize their farmers, Americans will be at a disadvantage, he said. 5. He also said Massachusetts, because it consumes far more milk than it produces, ends up subsidizing farmers in other states. 6. If enacted, the legislation would end the system by which the government subsidizes farmers who give up control over their planting decisions. 7. Many direct their ire at the World Trade Organization, which allows rich countries to subsidize their farmers but obliges India to dismantle quotas on imports. 8. Moore of New Zealand has advocated freer agricultural trade, and is unlikely to win support from Europeans, who heavily subsidize farmers. 9. Others, like Jacques, said that dismantling the programs altogether would be possible as long as other countries also ended the practice of subsidizing their farmers. 10. Politicians continued to subsidize small farmers and give juicy contracts to construction companies. |