President Donald Trump’s “I LOVE YOU!” tweet to farmers is facing another challenge: Budget cuts that will slash subsidies for...
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The two-year budget deal produces savings from one of the most popular programs in farm country — federally subsidized crop...
U.S. farmers are about to reap a bumper harvest not just in corn and soybeans but also in new subsidies...
A report commissioned by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) says that the federal crop insurance program over-compensated Corn Belt farmers...
Farm subsidy reformers praised a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to make the wealthiest growers pay more for...
Critics of the U.S. crop insurance program are calling for cuts to it and other agribusiness subsidies as Congress revamps...
A Depression-era program intended to save the nation’s farmers from ruin has grown into a 21st- century crutch enabling affluent...
Sustained high prices for corn, soybeans and wheat combined with record U.S. crop-insurance payouts are encouraging farmers to plow fragile...
House Republicans passed a five-year U.S. farm-policy bill that retains subsidies to farmers and strips out food-stamp spending, costing it...
U.S. farmers have collected a record $17 billion in crop insurance payments on drought-hit 2012 crops but the system could...