Subsidy Limits Lose Californians’ Support
Advocates of a $275,000-per-farm limit on government subsidies have lost the support of California’s senators, who have decided the Senate-passed cap was unfair to their cotton and rice farmers.
Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein are asking the Senate’s lead negotiators on new farm legislation to back off the payment limit.
Under current law, farmers can receive some subsidies in unlimited amounts, and they could continue to do so under a House-passed farm bill. Boxer and Feinstein were in the majority when the Senate voted 66-31 last month to put the $275,000 limit in its version of the farm bill.
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