{"id":872,"date":"2004-12-26T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2004-12-26T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2004-12-26T00:01:44","slug":"big_farms_farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Big Farms &#038; Farm Subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2004\/12\/26\/national\/26farm.1841.jpg\" TITLE=\"Kent Miller, a Nebraska wheat and millet farmer, is a critic of subsidies, but he is not forgoing aid. \"It's a Band-Aid on a large wound,\" he says.\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>For despite the fact that farm income has doubled in two years, federal subsidies have also <b>gone up nearly 40 percent<\/b> over the same period &#8211; projected at $15.7 billion this year, and $130 billion over the last nine years. And that bounty is drawing fire from people who say that at this moment of farm prosperity, the nation&#8217;s subsidy system has never made less sense.<br \/>\nEven those deeply steeped in the system acknowledge it seems counterintuitive. &#8220;I struggle with the same question: how the hell can you have such high government payments if farmers had such a great year?&#8221; said Keith Collins, the chief economist for the Agriculture Department<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/26\/national\/26farm.html?ex=1261717200&#038;en=d522a3b96449fe90&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt\">Timothy Egan<\/a> reviews a topic that SHOULD be discussed and acted upon in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}