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Agricultural subsidies is a very complex and controversial economic topic today. It will continue to be a hot topic as government continues it. It is largely debated in the United States as well as in other countries. The reason it is so largely debated is because it literally have an effect on the entire world market. Not to mention that the farm has been booming the last 5 to 10 years. This topic also tends to draw strong opinions in our area in particular due to the large agricultural community in our region. However, even within different states there are many supporters as well as opponents to these government subsidies.

"I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words, but of deeds." These famous words from "The FFA Creed" by E.M. Tiffany outline the basic beliefs of FFA members and agriculturists around the world. But these values, although crucial to the sustaining of our world's ever-increasing population, are growing more and more detached from the people not involved in agriculture. Although food and fiber production has increased in recent years, providing more bushels per acre and more meat per head of cattle, the agriculture industry has come under fire due to an overwhelming majority of people being totally disconnected from the agriculture industry. Today, we'll examine the primary causes of this disconnect, the negative effects on agriculture and our society as a whole that results from it, and how you can help solve this ever-growing problem.

Here in massachusetts the farmers are rising in protest to the rising state taxes. They have taken control of the courthouses to stop them from foreclosing the farms due to insufficient tax payments. This is increasingly concerning due to the fact that the national government does not seem to be doing anything about this unfair tax.

Hamilton believes that when lawmakers are making laws, they should keep farms and farmers in mind. He believes that it is very important to educate and make sure people around us understand the importance of agriculture. The author states that the lawmakers need to remember land can have some food issues. This means that the people and law makers need to think about how the farm is taken care of and who is taken care of it. The most important thing is that there people of power and the consumer want to make sure our food that is being farmed is healthy and safe to eat. The author also believes that all these issues

The Farm Bill only faced minor changes up until 1996, when a Republican Congress in favor of deregulating the industry redrafted the legislation to allow for more free market engagements. Since then, the debate over deregulating and unsubsidizing farmers has grown immensely.

Today, there are more than seven billion people roaming earth and each and everyone, have since the beginning of time-shared one thing in common; a need for food and nutrition for survival. Ohio is a state based on agriculture and Ohioans can be thankful for that. “Agriculture is Ohio 's top industry, contributing $105 billion to Ohio 's economy with actual farm gate receipts of $9.65 billion” (The Ohio Farm Bureau). The most recent farm census in 2012 from the United States Department of

I am writing to inform you of my concern toward the recent repeal of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. This repeal has negative effects on the men and women who call themselves America’s farmers and ranchers. As a consequence, these men and women are the ones who bare the cost of this decision. In addition American agriculturalist will lose $7.2 billion that this trade agreement will bring. These gains come primarily in the form of lower tariffs. Arguably current tariffs hinder the sale of Missouri agricultural products, and we must view agriculture markets at an international level not just the domestic level.

Besides, Oklahoma already has a “Right to Farm” statute. We support agriculture in this state already without giving away the proverbial

In terms of the ballot questions, voters voted no to Ballot question No.1 , which according to the Committee of Seventy, would have enabled “the state legislature to pass a law allowing local school boards, municipalities and counties to exclude the entire value of each primary residence (homestead or farmstead) in their jurisdictions from taxation if they chose to do so,” meaning property taxes would be “significantly” reduced or eliminated in “those jurisdictions.”

Farm subsidies have become an somewhat debated topic in recent year, with increasing numbers of critics believing that these are detrimental not only to the economy, but also by implication to the health of Americans. Subsidies are offered by the USDA to farmers of commodity crops such as corn, wheat, rice, and livestock such as cattle. This makes these types of food cheaper than other, potentially healthier choices such as organic products. Farm subsidies were initially implemented after the Great Depression to help farmers cope with the economic effects after the Depression years. In other words, they were to stimulate the economy after the difficult years of the downturn. Although initially intended as a temporary measure, the subsidies remained part of the government assistance program for farmers even today. As a proponent of this system, my viewpoint is that farm subsidies ultimately benefits the United States in terms of protecting domestic product against foreign competition, national security, and American food aid to poorer countries.

Capitol Hill Quackery: Congress Attacks Poultry Growers (again), the House of Appropriations Committee, which is tasked with authorizing the budget for our federal government, decided to push a sneaky “rider” into the budget process that would block the USDA from issuing protections for poultry growers under contract with large companies like Tyson, Perdue and Pilgrim’s Pride (Harive). Most poultry growers are forced to take on massive amounts of debt to secure their contracts with these companies (Harvie). Contract Poultry Farmers Speak Out, Get Heard, the companies lie to the farmers to get them to work for their businesses, even if the farmers know that the business is not a good one.

America’s farmers together can feed three hundred forty-one million people in a good year. That leaves only a little food left because the US has three hundred twenty million people. If the fifty foot buffer initiative law is enforced, one-hundred twenty thousand extra people will starve. Buffer strips are the land in between a field and a body of water. It’s used to help filter out chemicals so our water doesn’t get polluted with chemicals. Because of Minnesota’s polluted waters, Mark Dayton signed the Buffer Strip Initiative in 2015. The law hasn’t been passed yet, but it makes the sixteen foot buffers into fifty foot buffers. Most farmers don’t follow the sixteen foot law, but our waters’ getting worse, so Dayton is getting stricter. Governor Dayton’s Buffer Strip Initiative shouldn’t be enforced, we should just make farmers aware of the consequences if they don’t follow the sixteen foot law.

Feeding everyone in the nation is a very hard process, but our farmers get it done. Our food comes farms where farmers make sure it’s okay to eat and ripe and healthy. Local farmers tend to have great quality food. They make sure the people in their town are satisfied.

The words to the famous old children’s song “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” are due for a revision. The new lines should read “Old MacDonald had a farm . . . with a lawyer here, and an accountant there, and everywhere a new federal program and regulation.” Not quite as poetic, but definitely more appropriate. The current state of agribusiness consists of an incredibly complex mix of subsidies, price supports, and bureaucratic regulations that could confound the most knowledgeable business minds. Underlying this tangled web of rules and regulations are political battles that pit normally allied groups against each other, and bring normally adversarial groups into allegiance. One bizarre

For example, trends in per capita production of beef and pork in the U.S. has remained basically flat during the transition from family farms to CAFOs. Poultry production has increased for other reasons, and has continued to increase long after the industry was taken over by CAFOs. In fact red meat consumption has actually declined in recent years. Retail prices have also remained basically constant, after considering inflation. Any reduction in farm level costs of production have been offset by wider profit margins for food processors and retailers. Consumers have not benefitted economically from CAFOs.”(Missouri). Regardless, CAFOs have been successfully promoted as an economic development strategy for depressed rural communities. However, the promised employment turns out to be low-paying jobs, without benefits, that go primarily to people who move into CAFO communities. Few local people are willing to work under the dangerous and degrading conditions that exist in CAFOs. Most of the profits from factory farms go to outside corporate investors, not to local farmers or rural residents. Any local tax benefits are more than offset by higher costs to repair roads and bridges damaged by the large trucks that service CAFOs and by increased costs of education, health care, and law enforcement made necessary people by who move into communities to work in the CAFOs. Perhaps most important, the controversy that