The farm bill will come up soon in Congress.  It looks like the House bill will re-enact the status quo, or make it worse. (see http://www.cfra.org/… )

 Here's a taste of what's wrong with the old bill.  The top 20 Iowa recipients of farm crop support price payments (money in the mailbox), took home $24 million of your tax money. That's more than a million bucks each.

 But the 20 most rural counties in the state got only $13 million dollars in rural development money.  Since the combined population of those counties is 315,000, that means the farm bill was worth $41 to the average resident.

Is that what our urban readers want? Millionaire farmers (landlords) and declining small towns?  If not, they should take the advice of the Center for Rural Affairs and contact Speaker Pelosi, who has not taken this bull by its horns so far.

 Here you go:

http://www.cfra.org/…