Farm bill divides Midwestern and Southern farmers

Thursday, June 14, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For once, it's not Democrats battling Republicans. The five-year farm and food stamps bill now being debated in the Senate is a regional fight, pitting rice and peanut growers in the South against corn producers and soybean farmers in the Midwest.

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