The nation’s biggest farm lobbying group supports a balanced budget. It’s against tax
increases and says the federal government needs to tighten its belt.
Just don’t ask its members where the government should trim billions of dollars in agriculture
spending – they can’t agree.
Despite warnings about belt-tightening and record federal deficits, delegates to the American
Farm Bureau Federation left their annual convention this week without making major
suggestions on where Congress should trim spending in the next Farm Bill, which sets federal
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