Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Vegetable and fruit growers in California may be getting a windfallto the tune of several billion dollars from the US farm bill, reportsthe San Francisco Chronicle. However, costly subsidies to other crops,such as corn, wheat, and cotton would continue. A wide rangingcoalition of environmentalists, health advocates, and even somesubsidized farmers are clamoring for reform, but it’s uncertain whetherthe bill will deliver it.

Calitics has more to say about the farm bill, noting in particular that massive corn subsidies are neither financially or agriculturally very smart.