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The US government used to have American farmers’ backs, but that support has been dwindling for decades. New subsidies signal big changes for farmers.
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.
In the past, farmers have balanced their political beliefs against market logic. How much pressure can farmers endure?
An invisible crisis is brewing in US farm country as the overpumped Ogallala-High Plains Aquifer drains. The key drivers are federal farm subsidies and the tax code.
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Professor of Sociology and Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Kansas State University
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Deputy Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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