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Farmers work, wonder as farm bill expires

By Anne Cook
Sunday, September 30, 2007 11:17 AM CDT

BLOOMINGTON – Nearly everyone concerned calls the law that expires today "the farm bill."

But the federal Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 and its predecessors are not all about agriculture. Only about a quarter of the cost of the legislation is linked to crop subsidy programs that are so popular with farmers and unpopular with world trade advocates.

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