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It ain't peanuts!(Between The Lines)
ITEM: "Federal farm program payments to North Dakotans have slipped the past two years' to levels not seen since the mid-1990s, reflecting an improved farm economy, officials say," reported the Bismarck Tribune for Sept. 29. Farm payment programs "paid to North Dakota residents and businesses in 2002 totaled $383.6 million, down 59 percent from 2001 and the lowest since 1995...."
BETWEEN THE LINES: Despite the "improved farm economy" for North Dakotans, federal subsidies to farmers are not peanuts, either in North Dakota or throughout the United States. Nationally those subsidies totaled more than $12 billion--with Agriculture Department subsidies of $114 billion over the last eight ...
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