http://mdmorn.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/52121-an-end-to-direct-payments-for-farmers/ Reporting from the Front Lines of the Free State Wed, 01 May 2013 21:12:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mdmorn.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/52121-an-end-to-direct-payments-for-farmers/#comment-6976 Thu, 03 May 2012 12:34:18 +0000 http://mdmorn.wordpress.com/?p=15003#comment-6976 This farm bill is not an end to subsidy as your politician would like you to believe. It simply changes the subsidy to today’s market. The derivatives market hedges most crop damage by setting a price on the commodity so no direct payment is needed. Wall Street is making small farmers who would want to stay out of the market and get direct payment enter the market instead…..it is like privatizing pensions and entitlements…..the market controls what you get and how you get it. We have a corporate democratic leadership so that would be the course they take.

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