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Congress has chosen to have taxpayers subsidize sales to foreign buyers, by lowering price floors to lower prices, then adding subsidies.	Corporate grain buyers asked Congress to lower wheat Price Floors to lower the price of wheat, which lowered our income from wheat exports, and secretly subsidized corporate buyers with cheap raw materials. Wheat farmerswere forced to subsidized these co	Comparing prices of oil per barrel and wheat per bushel. This is NOT adjusted for inflation.	Cotton Prices, price floors and parity prices, adjusted for inflation.	Parity Ratios for U.S. agriculture overall, 1910-2009. Source: USDA-NASS, Agricultural Statistics Annual, various editions, http://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Ag_Statistics/index.asp
Agribusiness and Farm Shares of Food Spending. Data is an illustrative estimate using data from USDA-ERS and Stewart Smith, U of Maine. Smith separates the agribusiness input complex share from the farm share through 1997.	Price Ceilings in farm bills prior to 1996 protect buyers, including consumers, including the poor. Reserve Supplies were placed on the market when prices rose above ceilings. All were drastically lowered to subsidize agribusiness.	Like wheat and corn, rice price floors were lowered by Congress to give hidden benefits (not in the Farm subsidy Database,) to agribusiness buyers. Corporations called for lowering price floors to run 1/3 of US farmers off the land within 5 years.	Farmers lost money with subsidies, as these 6 USDA-ERS studies show. Farmers get paid wages in these stats, but here average losses on their overall investments in land, machinery, etc. Basically they take out of their wages to try to cover losses.	Corn Subsidizes You Find additional information here: http://www.zcommunications.org/corn-farmers-have-long-subsidized-you-not-the-other-way-around-by-brad-wilson.