Some farmers received USDA payments every year for 32 years

Nearly 28,000 farmers received crop subsidy or agricultural disaster payments every year for 32 years, said the Environmental Working Group in a report released today. The payments, from 1985-2016, averaged $687,204 per person annually and totaled at least $19.2 billion, according to EWG’s analysis of USDA data. A frequent critic of crop subsidies and a… » Read More

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