"I believe that to live and work on a good farm, or to be engaged in other agricultural pursuits is pleasant as well as challenging; for I know the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and hold an inborn fondness for those associations which, even in hours of discouragement, I cannot deny." This statement, which holds firm in the hearts of millions of American farmers, clearly states that farming has it's pleasant and it's challenging …showed first 75 words of 1156 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1156 total…farms that does not carry the many subsidy problems, the agricultural policy would undoubtedly change. Perhaps the same anti-trust laws that prevented the monopolizing of industry could be used to prevent the consolidation of farms. Until some other system is developed that can deal with the problems of the small farmer, subsidies will continue to pump billions of dollars away from the family farms that need it, and into the "iron fist" of corporate farms.