Foodies often point to the large subsidies given to field crops and complain that fruit and vegetable growers don't get subsidized. Whatever the truth of the assertion, I want to point to this new FSA program. Yes, it's for asparagus, which last I looked was a vegetable. (I like asparagus, fresh asparagus, locally grown asparagus.) Of course the program is for the 2004 through 2007 crop years.
Frankly, I don't have time left in my life to research this, and the link to the body of the regulations does not work (I've complained to GPO) so I'll just fly off the handle. This is ridiculous. No bureaucrat can reasonably administer a program this far removed from the current day. Too much changes. According to the press release, it sounds as if there were a surge of imports during the period. Someone got some Congressperson to put this in the farm bill, though it doesn't count as an earmark.
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