Source: Brian Trusdell, NEWSMAX, 11/2/20


The trend of federal farm subsidies increasingly favoring larger operations over the smaller family holdings has been accelerated this year by relief measures intended to blunt the impact of the spread of the novel coronavirus, The Wall Street Journal reported. Of nearly $5 billion paid by the government to farms in a COVID-19 program, nearly one-quarter, or more than $1.2 billion, went to fewer than 1% of the recipients, according to the Journal.

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