Sentences with phrase «farm subsidies»

The birds have also been hit by changes in farming subsidies, which have reduced the numbers of sheep and encouraged forestry.

But it has become a major farm subsidy program — and a vital campaign contributions program.

With ethanol's demands on corn crops, the increased prices of corn have meant that decreasing farm subsidy payments have been more than double the cost of ethanol subsidies.

He said the only justification for farm subsidies is to increase production of a crop or to level the playing field in the international marketplace.

Last, the government is looking at reducing farm subsidies by $ 3 billion, which is a drop in the bucket for the deficit but could have a serious impact on your investments.

Once you have registered your land you are then permitted to receive farming subsidy.

It has become a major farm subsidy that lacks merit.

Which farm subsidies are frustrating, all of them!

Such farm subsidies put developing - country farmers at a huge competitive disadvantage.

Although getting farm subsidies is nice, children subsidies make it extra special.

If you look into it, you'll find that the bulk of the money in farm subsidies is going to big industrial farms.

Conservatives rebuffed on immigration have sunk a bill that combined stricter work and job training requirements for food stamp recipients with a renewal of farm subsidies popular in Republican - leaning farm country.

Undo the monstrous federal farm subsidies paid to Big Agra and reduce all our taxes, and level the farming field (but that's the fight for the next Congress).

The aristocrats cashing in on Britain's wind farm subsidies Growing numbers of the nobility are being tempted to build giant wind farms on their estates by the promise of tens of millions of pounds being offered green energy developers.

More on Farm Subsidies Subsidy - Laden Farm Bill Up for Vote this Week EWG Reveals Who Benefits Most from Direct Subsidy - Laden Farm Bill U.S. House Farm Bill Draft Supports Subsidizing Sugar for Ethanol

In reality the nature of the Senate almost guarantees Farm Subsidies as a permanant feature of our Politics.

-- Cutting $ 100 billion from defense spending — Raising the Social Security Eligibility Age to 69 — Raise the national gasoline tax by 15 cents — Lowering the corporate tax rate to 26 % — Repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)-- End the mortgage interest deduction for mortgages over $ 500,000 — Cutting the federal workforce by 10 % — Cutting farm subsidies by $ 3 billion

Crappy food is cheaper because of government farm subsidies.

WASHINGTON >> In an embarrassment for House Republican leaders, conservatives on Friday scuttled a bill that combines stricter work and job training requirements for food stamp recipients with a renewal of farm subsidies popular in GOP - leaning farm country.

(Those increases were offset by reductions in minor entitlement programs, including farm subsidies, over a much longer period of 10 years.)

The French ultimatum was sparked by a proposal to trim farm subsidies - jealously guarded by top recipient France - as part of a compromise from the Cypriot EU presidency to cut the 2014 - 2020 budget by more than 50 billion euros.

Years of research proving its Agriculture and overfertilizing paid for by farm subsidies in which farmers waisfully pull there fertilizer wagons around all fields knowing its going past the root into the groundwater, lakes, rivers, and streams.

Why you should be worried that Legatum is lobbying the government about farm subsidies and a UK - US free trade deal.

«The UK government will absolutely continue in the short term to provide those subsidies whilst we think about what makes sense,» she said in the Guardian's EU debate, which keen - eyed observers will note does not guarantee farming subsidies long - term.

This could begin the much needed process of disbanding the illogical and expensive farm subsidy program of today.

Our oceans and corral reef is dead like all other water supplies from lack of oxygen thanks to our politicians who took farm subsidies and turned there heads.

Due largely to Butz's reforms, today the bulk of farm subsidies go to producers of only five crops: wheat, soybeans, corn, cotton and rice, and the food economy is based on processed foods and additives derived from corn.

* France objects to proposed farm subsidy cuts.

The NYT running a column like Davidoff's is like the Iowa City Press Citizen running a column on a plan to cut back farm subsidies where the views of the state's leading wheat and corn farmers are presented as unquestioned truth, along with a study from the corn growers trade organization.

In his first speech in the role, Michael Gove - who is also a Christian - said farm subsidies will have to be earned rather than just handed out in future as they currently are under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.

The farms remain, largely supported by farm subsidies from the European Union and the wine - buying habits of affluent foreigners.

There is little evidence of organized interest in the issues of land use and food production, and the voting public seems content to let farm subsidies artificially support the corn industry and postpone transformation.

A new report from the Department of Agriculture confirmed what EWG has been saying for years: Farm subsidies overwhelmingly go to the largest and most successful farm businesses, instead of to struggling family farms that need them the most.

Some of the solutions proposed in «A Place at the Table» include expanding food stamps, ensuring that all children who qualify for free school lunches have access to them, implementing nutrition education, reexamining farm subsidies, and revising guidelines for federal food assistance.

Farm subsidies primarily benefit a handful of «program» crops, including corn, soybeans, cotton, rice, wheat and sugar, which does not receive subsidies but is protected from foreign competition by tariffs and quotas, he said.

It's also worth pointing out a deeper selfishness involved involved in the equation: Democratic states functionally subsidize Republican states, and as I found in my distant days in the Texas Legislature, (relatively) pro-tax urban areas typically subsidize low - tax rural counties (think of Michelle Bachmann's family farm subsidy payments as an example).

Conservative Party leader, Michael Howard, last night called for an end to the «indefensible» trade tariffs and farm subsidies shackled on developing countries.

[cheer] Starting with farm subsidies!

They also complain they lose out on EU farming subsidies while having to meet stricter welfare regulations than their EU competitors, increasing the cost of rearing pigs to slaughter.

May's erstwhile rival for the Tory leadership is another Brexiter being given the difficult task of untangling the UK from the European Union, in her case farming subsidies as the new environment secretary.

• The sea off Bournemouth was as calm as a fringe meeting on upland farm subsidies.

You would think that this would be a great time to eliminate US farm subsidies, but no, they are too effective at buying votes insuring economic stability in the Midwest.

Farm subsidy reductions could impact the entire agribusiness sector.

Sewage plants all over america filtering out nitrogen and phosphorus paid for by the taxpayers because of farm subsidies amounting to trillions of dollars in which creates high paying jobs at cancer hospital around the country.

Humphreys, J., M. van Bueren, and A. Stoeckel, 2003: Greening farm subsidies, rural industries research and development corporation, Barton ACT ISBN 064258608.

It must be a strange world compared to ours, where we have been building up cornohol for 3 decades so that we can send farm subsidy checks to addresses in Manhattan (NY, not Kansas).