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mulethree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 02:35 PM
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4. 3.5% of farms recieve 70% of subsidies
http://www.ewg.org:16080/farm/findings.php

But that lumps some 'cooperatives' which are actually multiple farmers.

35% of US farms - 2.4 million - get subsidies. The top 10% of those get 70% of the money. Most of this is based on 1995-2000 data.

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