Sentence examples for crop support from inspiring English sources

Under the federal crop support program -- itself a wasteful exercise -- rice growers receive guarantees of $3.10 per bushel for their crops, more than double the $1.40 market price.

Some argue that it is a mistake for ranchers, many of whom use cheap federal grazing land and receive crop support payments, to fight the designation.

The smart money is on more emphasis on alternative energy and the environment, more subsidies for conservation and less money for trade-distorting crop support.

Shattered by the oil and gas industry bust of the 1980's, it was surviving largely on federal crop support payments to its dwindling farm population, said Jack W. Ivester, the town's mayor.

The Yazoo Pumps would be an endless burden on America's taxpayers: nearly $200 million to build and millions more every year thereafter for operation and maintenance, energy costs and crop support payments.

It is a crop support program that, as the farm bill in Congress evolves, is gradually being phased out in favor of other forms of support like federal crop insurance, Mr. Archer said.

It would replace crop supports with an insurance program to cover actual losses, and put the savings, potentially billions of dollars, to better use, including for food aid.

Not sure we urbanites share your antipathy toward the minimum-wage laws, but when it comes to crop supports, we're there for you.

Highly modified environments of nectar-bearing crop supported the most species-rich bee assemblages, and the highest abundance of individual bee species.

It creates a disastrous precedent for a nation that direly needs to start dismantling other crop supports, both for domestic budgetary reasons and to comply with international trade laws.

If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Schafer will oversee a department that has more than 100,000 employees and spends about $90 billion a year on a wide array of programs that include crop supports, forestry and nutrition.