farm subsidies
Crop grower assistance
Farm subsidies are government payments to agricultural producers, typically to stabilize food prices, ensure domestic food supply, or support farmers' incomes.
Critics argue they distort markets and favor large agribusinesses over small farms: Farm subsidies keep corn artificially cheap.
The term often carries political charge in debates about government intervention in markets.
- crop insuranceProtection against agricultural losses
- agribusinessCommercial farming sector
- family farmsKin-run agricultural operations
- rural AmericaNon-urban domestic regions
- corn beltMajor grain-growing region
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- EU farm policyrural development, decoupling, greening, direct payments, modulation
- farm subsidiesdirect payments, support payments, subsidy programs, income support
- agribusinessagribusiness, farms, corporate farms, factory farming, factory farms
- British farmingsheep farming, dairy farming, cattle farming, mixed farming, pig farming
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- farm economicscrop prices, crop insurance, crop yields, crop failure, harvest yield