Farm bills – famously complex legislative and spending balances between farm subsidies, food assistance, conservation and more – have tended to be passed about every five years since 1933.
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Mid-size farms used to be the average farm in Canada, but the increase in both small and large farms has made it difficult to define what the new average farm size is.
In spite of public disapproval, food prices are likely to remain high this year unless the government intervenes to cushion farmers from rising costs.
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Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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Deputy Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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Professor, Dept of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University