The larger the output, the larger the benefit. While the support rate is the same for everyone, large growers as a matter of course collect the lion's share of payments. A primary goal of the farm program was to bolster market prices and raise farm income. But many of the rest benefit in other ways. Tobacco has planting and marketing quotas.
Marketing orders can shape the sales of fruits and vegetables.
Imports can be constrained for overseas products that compete with U.S. crops. Some ranchers graze livestock on federal land at rental rates that environmentalists say are unduly low. All rights reserved. Republication and redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without Reuters prior written consent. At Home Corporation.