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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaelo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points SThe farm bill is scheduled for reauthorization in 2023, and, in response, ralrn interest groups are urging Congress to maintain or expand agriculturai si bsd prog rams. a Over the past 40 years, farm bills have orovided an ever-broadening array of benefits for `.I '?ilr!'' e~ r e )n lrl aria'sof farmn and othe r interest siilarly ever-expning array f groups, ing nutrition program s and conservati on and clirate change initiatives that pay farmers to reduce soil erosion and other forms of pollution. Unlike tie farm bill's nutrition provisions, ii pr vtde crucial assistance to over 40 :illion :lw-income individuals, the ma ority of ri ultural subsidy dollars have gone to e tian 200,000 of the largest and wealtst Far ims, -ir. which face little risk of bankruptcv o other financial forms of business failure. For over seven decades, many of the programs authorized by successive farm bills have been subject to sunset mandates, including in the cur- rent farm bill, the 2cif Agriculture inproverment Act, whose key provisions are set to expire on Sep- tenber 30, 2023, in response, a wide range of inter-- est groups have already expended a fair amount of energy in lobbyin g Congress to maintain existing programs and introduce new provisions that will serve their interests in die rext farm bill. Those groups include long standing farm organ- izations such as th An rican f arL Lureau feder ation and its state-based affiliates and crop-specific organizations such as the National Corn Growers Association and the National Association of Wheat Growers. The major purpose of many of those organizations has been to maintain support for their constituents, at the expense of either tax- payers or consumers through regulations that gen- erate higher prices for commodities such as sugar and dairy products, even though most of the bene- fits generally accrue to the largest tarmas. The bteady and increasingly loud drumbeat from those groups is that existing subsidy programs shoud be continued, their scope expanded, and federal spending increased, In several cases, the jusrtcation being used is that higher energy, ferti- lizer, and other input costs over the past i8 months have placed a severe strain on the agricultural sector's financial viabilivy and that the govern- ment needs to comnpensate farmers for those higher costs. The facts, omitted in many of the

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