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Are farmers usually Democrats or republicians?
Democrats. The reason being is that the democratic party supports farm subsidies worth millions of dollars. The farmers (naturally) vote for the Democrats because they want to keep the subsidies. The farmers stay rich because of these subsidies that they get each year. Farming subsidies started in the 1930's Great Depression era by FDR. They were supposed to keep the farmers from starving to death in a time when there was little commercially available food. Nowadays, farmers just milk the system. Source: lived in a rural community in Kentucky for 5 years and all of the farmers voted Democrat.
This New Deal program helped farmers through price support subsidies?
Agricultural Adjustment Act This New Deal program helped farmers through price support subsidies.
The New Deal Program helped farmers through price support subsidies?
Agricultural Adjustment Act was The New Deal Program helped farmers through price support subsidies.
Are subsidies to farmers considered entitlements llike social security and medicare?
Subsidies to farmers are a means to insure they can still make a profit when they sell their crops seasonally. Food is cheap, and as such, a farmer may or may not be able to make a living farming. so, no.
What are the Pros and cons of agricultural subsidies?
Pros: - Subsidies would allow for farmers to compete with low-priced foreign imports - Subsidies would keep the cost of goods down - Subsidies would help farmers maintain a steady income, helping to protect them from variations in year-to-year income. (Such as a bad growing year. Some years, there are fewer crops that are produced, be it due to poor weather or other factors, and these loss of crops would dramatically harm a farmer's income. Subsidies would help make up this difference. Cons: -It costs a fortune (remember, we are in $14 trillion in debt) -Subsidies tend to go to larger farmers, who would not be threatened as much by a bad growing year. -subsidies would go against the free market
The main thing the government has done to try to help farmers is to provide money to them in the form of?
invention subsidies
What is an effect of farm subsidies that pay farmers to take land out of cultivation?
Farmers use more pesticides on lands they do cultivate to make up for lost production.
Is there not a public webpage that post the amount of farm subsidies farmers receive by state and county?
You would probably have to search by state. Do a google search for your state with "farm subsidies" you should come up with something
What is the effect of farm subsidies that pay farmers to take land out of cultivation?
When farmers are paid not to cultivate land less crops are produced. This will keep prices up so that the farmers can actually have money for the planting in the following year.
What are the advantages of farm subsidies?
The primary advantage of farm subsidies is for the farmer to make a profit. Without subsidies farmers would loose money because the prices paid for farm products is too low.Subsidies help the supply of food to be abundant therefore lowering the cost of food for the general public.
How is biofuel collected?
Biofuel is any kind of vegetation that can be burnt to generate electricity. This can be the remains of crops like sugar cane (bagasse) after the sugar is removed. It can be the husks of coconuts. Often farmers are glad to get rid of this stuff and pleased that it is generating renewable energy.
Agricultural subsidies-a boon or a bane?
The use of agricultural subsidies is widespread in the Caribbean. The objectives are: to encourage adoption of improved agricultural practices for increasing agricultural production and conservation of natural resources. The subsidies are provided in the form of cash, production inputs and, more recently, as rebates on income taxes. There are many rather small cash and other incentives. Farmers do not perceive these as incentives to practice adoption but rather as snippets of assistance or dole provided by governments to farmers. This perception, plus the disproportionate amount of energy and time small farmers must exert in order to obtain these small subsidies can create in them feelings of irritation and frustration. As a result they tend to perceive these small subsidies as needed nuisances, more bane than boon. Caribbean farmers are market oriented and respond to meaningful monetary incentives. Given a choice they would prefer to have an assured market and a "reasonable" price for their farm produce or the availability at reduced prices of production of marketable produce.
