Lawmakers pushing new farm subsidy

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

WASHINGTON -- Corn and soybean farmers are pushing for -- and Congress is moving to create -- a whole new subsidy that could maintain farm incomes at a nearly four-decade high should prices fall or crops be destroyed by weather.

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