Farm Subsidies Stay at Status Quo.

This article reports on the adoption of the U.S. House Agriculture General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee on an amendment by Democrat Representative Bob Etheridge of North Carolina that would only extend farm subsidies in the 2002 farm law. It says that this bill has replaced the proposal of Democrat Representative Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota that would boost the subsidies called as counter-cyclical and loan-deficiency payments.