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10 October 2013 – Policy

Target: Rich, Sugar, Foreigners

By Gary Blumenthal for Ag Perspectives

Rich and Sugar Targeted The House voted to go to conference with the Senate over the 2013 Farm Bill, and on Saturday will consider explicit instructions to its conferees on issues for which they should fight. One would instruct House conferees to concede to the Senate's restriction on crop insurance subsidies to anyone with an adjusted gross income of $750,000 or more. Of course, this could also have the effect of reducing from the pool the number of larger, efficient producers who incur fewer crop losses. The more challenging instruction yet to be decided would push reform of the sugar program. The amendment was rejected during previous floor action, and there are limits in conference when actual House and Senate bill language are rou...

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