Agriculture

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• U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Market Access Program

  Many examples of corporate welfare exist, but few are as wasteful as the Market Access Program (MAP) ...

  
• The Path To Trillion Dollar Farm Bills

  Farm bills have doubled in cost over the past decade...

  
• Harvest Real Savings by Reforming Agriculture Policy

  A number of common sense steps can be taken to create a more accountable, responsive, and cost-effective agricultural policy....

  
• Golden Fleece Awarded to Agriculture Risk Management Agency

  Taxpayers for Common Sense awarded the Golden Fleece to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) for...

  
• Fact Sheet

  Crop Insurance: A Federal Cash Assurance Program

  Federal crop insurance allows agricultural producers to shift their business risk onto taxpayers....

  

Washington wastes billions of taxpayer dollars annually on inefficient and outdated agriculture policies that do not address the realities of 21st-century agriculture, modern economies, or our nation’s current financial challenges. Many of these policies were created in the 1930’s as temporary measures ...More

to combat the Great Depression. Nearly 80 years later, most remain in place even though they fail to meet the needs of America’s farmers, rural communities, consumers, or taxpayers. Federal agricultural policy must be reformed to provide a limited, effective, and efficient safety net for agricultural producers – and to eliminate lavish, poorly-directed subsidies.

Every five years, Congress passes “Farm Bills,” establishing agricultural policies that are driven by politics and narrow concerns, instead of the public interest. For too long, Congress has failed to focus legislation on what should be our number-one priority: the need for a secure domestic food supply.

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