It pushed land reform and a controversial military agreement with Venezuela through the Senate thanks to a boycott by much of the opposition.
The report showed in graphic detail how the current $20 billion program distorts the market, pushes land prices to artificially high levels and threatens current as well as future trade agreements.
The company also plans to developa sports city around the circuit with a golf course, Olympic size swimming pool, tennis and hockey facilities and a football academy plus shopping malls and commercial premises which will all push land and property prices higher.
While Ms. Veneman stopped short of choosing between rival programs being considered in Congress, the report showed precisely how the current $20 billion annual subsidy program distorted the market, pushed land prices to artificially high levels and jeopardized current as well as future trade agreements.
The idea would be to "[use] the 5-year farm bills to push land use from monocropping of annual feed grains to broad acreages of deep rooted perennial plants that sequester carbon, filter water, protect the soil, provide habitat, and can support fewer numbers of healthier grazing animals".
"You realise there's a nose protruding from the land, so you keep on sculpting and pushing the land around, and there's this face.
"He is pushing a land bill that is fatally flawed," laments an expert.
There are a hundred other, less forgiving, competitors pushing up land prices: namely house builders, green energy providers and hedge funds.
The force pushing more land into production is the rise in crop prices: in the past five years corn prices tripled and those for soybeans doubled because of swelling worldwide demand, including demand for ethanol production.
What if something is pushing the land up?
