date:Dec 12, 2012
n Assistance Program, formerly known as the food stamp program.
Brown asked ag lenders to consider Congress dilemma. What are you going to cut? he asked.
Brown said members of Congress received little input from farmers during the farm bill debate. This may be because protection afforded by crop insurance programs worked the way it was designed to work, Brown said, and there were few complaints. He also noted that Congress now has fewer rural legislators who understand ag issues.
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