EWG’s Farm Subsidy Database put the issue on the map and is driving reform. Just ten percent of America’s largest and richest farms collect almost three-fourths of federal farm subsidies; cash payments that often harm the environment.
Read this and contact the media – make sure people see this and know what the facts are. Stop thinking that these poor ranchers are poor – they are not. AND this public land is our heritage handed down to our children. Sage grouse, Wolves,
for example, are of far more importance than one more damn cow.Interesting factoid. Via Western Watersheds Project:
Hammond Ranches Inc received payments totaling $295,471 from 1995 through 2012
Source: EWG Farm Subsidy Database