{"id":7318,"date":"2009-03-03T06:51:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=7318"},"modified":"2010-12-23T03:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:50:39","slug":"farm-subsidy-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/03\/farm-subsidy-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Subsidy Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Working Group&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/farm.ewg.org\/farm\/index.php?key=nosign\">interactive database <\/a>lets you look up farm subsidies paid by the USDA. You can get all kinds of information&#8211;subsidy payments by county or congressional district, top 100 recipients of subsidies, breakdowns into particular types of payments (conservation, crops, disaster, etc.), and so on. It&#8217;s an interesting source of information, given that the Obama administration wants to drastically reduce farm subsidies and we&#8217;re likely to see a big argument over what the impact will be on farmers. Some groups argue that mid-sized family farms will be devastated by the loss of price supports. Others point out that subsidy payments are highly concentrated, with the top 20% of recipients getting the overwhelming majority of payments, and that if large industrial operations were forced to compete with family farms on an even playing-field without welfare payments, many of them would go out of business, leading to lower production and higher prices for other producers.<\/p>\n<p>This was a big debate among rural sociologists when I was in grad school, and I guess we may be about to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Working Group&#8217;s interactive database lets you look up farm subsidies paid by the USDA. You can get all kinds of information&#8211;subsidy payments by county or congressional district, top 100 recipients of subsidies, breakdowns into particular types of payments (conservation, crops, disaster, etc.), and so on. It&#8217;s an interesting source of information, given that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,2124,341],"class_list":["post-7318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-foodagriculture","tag-ruralurban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31366,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318\/revisions\/31366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}