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USDA plans to tighten farm program payment rules

When USDA officials finally issued an interim final rule on new farm program payment limitations last month, the document was hailed as a substantial tightening of the rules governing how farm program payments will be distributed. "Changes to program participation rules and qualifying income requirements will make farm program payments more defendable to America's taxpayers," Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said in announcing the rule. The stockholders represent that they equally provide ...
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