Monday, October 15, 2007

LOBBY GROUP WANTS FARM BILL CHANGES

A Minnesota farm lobby group spokesman says he wants to encourage marketplace competition through next year's farm bill. Dennis Olson is the senior policy analyst for the Minnesota-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and he says current federal farm subsidy program is badly broken. Olson's group says it wants more competition, more subsidies for smaller farms and better enforcement of a law restricting corporate farm operations.

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