subsidies
subsidies: Page 1
Discussed in (click each link for the full post):
NYT: Growers want to be subsidized (they already are) - 12/03/06
Alexei Barrionuevo of the New York Times offers "Imports Spurring Push to Subsidize Produce":
For decades, the fiercely independent fruit and vegetable growers of California, Florida and other states have been the only farmers in America who shunned federal subsidies, delivering produce to the tables of millions of Americans on their own.
But now, in the face of tough new competition primarily from China, even these proud groups are buckling. Produce farmers, their hands newly outstretched, have joined forces for the first time, forming a lobby group intended to pressure politicians over...