Farm subsidy failures condemned
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The government is criticised by MPs  for the failure to pay EU subsidies to thousands of farmers on time.
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E.U. subsidies have spurred big surpluses and made the continent uncompetitive with "New World" wines. Now reform is afoot
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By Hank Shaw, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 17--SACRAMENTO -- Farmers in the Delta received nearly $11 million in government subsidies between 2003 and 2005, according to new data from a Washington-based watchdog group.
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By Katy Guest  In Nicaragua this summer, they had much the same problem with the bean harvest as we did in Britain. As the sun scorched the fields and prayed-for rain failed to fall, tender legume crops failed. In Britain, we feared that Bird's Eye might have to put up its prices.
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By LIBBY QUAID  WASHINGTON - Trying to tighten the federal budget, the Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years.
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The United States needs to make "more ambitious" farm subsidy cuts to make progress at global trade talks, the European Union said Thursday in response to U.S. budget proposals that would cut agriculture spending by $18 billion over the next five years.
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A furious attack on the rush for biofuels is launched by a charity that supports poor farmers.
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Large farm operations are reaping too big a share of government subsidies, new Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Thursday, defending President Bush's desire to curb the payments by billions of dollars over the next decade.
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By Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 23--Immigration policies are a bureaucratic mess and getting farm labor for small farmers is next to impossible.
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The Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years
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The Bush administration yesterday proposed ending farm subsidies for an estimated 80,000 wealthy individuals as part of a broad plan that would close loopholes and cut traditional farm programs by $4.5 billion over the next 10 years.
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Poor harvests caused by bad weather could hurt farmers more than the foot-and-mouth outbreak, the government's rural adviser says.
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Farmers are not ready to abandon   crop subsidies for the "green" payments that some reformers say   should be the new focus of the $20 billion-a-year U.S. farm   program, a survey of growers showed on Wednesday.
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By Michelle Koetters, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Jun. 22--BLOOMINGTON -- Non-farmers reap the benefits of farm subsidies  across the country, but not in McLean County.
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Business & money: Â· Call to catch up with big energy crop producersÂ· Concerns over food supply are 'absolute nonsense'
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The farm bill passed last month by the House doesn't go far enough in limiting which farmers should be eligible to receive government subsidies, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said.
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Eliminating federal subsidies to American cotton growers could modestly improve the incomes of millions of poor cotton farmers in Africa, a new study suggests.