"To be sure, farmers as a whole are heavily clustered on the political right, although their actual policy preferences are a mix of blatantly leftist protectionism (sugar, dairy) and subsidies (crop insurance) scattered like chocolate chips in a cookie of free-market rhetoric."
Phipps has had qualms about the Farm Bureau and its representation of farmers for years. (Its claim of 6 million members is inflated by its insurance operation.) In this article he lays out his case for leaving it.
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