The Rice Czar and her Minister

by Dan Owens on Blog for Rural America: The rice czar, Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), is speaking against more excellent comments by Sen. Klobuchar on payment limits. She says that the payment limits compromise engineered by Conrad and Chambliss is good enough- and then says that they have lowered the limits on all three farm programs. That is simply false. . . . Lincoln is really laying it on about supporting farmers and how this compromise is just the most reform in farm programs ever. She says that farmers have to be large to be competitive. . . . Really, Lincoln is just fighting for her rice farmers, who get $96 per acre in direct payments - for doing nothing . . . [Read More]

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Tags: Blanche Lincoln, farm subsidies, farming, Rice