Summary
When the agriculture lobby tries to justify its hugely expensive and inefficient system of taxpayer-paid subsidies and price supports, it invokes the "small family farm," conjuring up Grant Wood's famed "American Gothic" painting of a farm couple.
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Billionaire Farmers the Issue: Subsidies Help the Wealthy. Our View: It's Relevant to the Farm Bill.
But there are some small family farms in there somewhere as well as some other, more surp...
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