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Subject: Urgent Family Farm Action Alert
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 19:20:29 -0500
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URGENT FAMILY FARM ACTION ALERT

Please call your Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives and
urge him/her to support the Kind Motion to send the farm bill back to
conference committee.  The farm bill will be before the full House of
Representatives tomorrow (Thursday), so you must act quickly.

To find the name and number of your Representative, click on the link
below.  Call his/her Washington office and ask for the aid handling the
farm bill.  If the aide is not in, leave a voice mail asking your
Representative to support the Kind Motion to send the farm bill back to
the
conference committee to place a cap on payments to large farms and
commit
the savings to rural development, conservation and nutrition program.

The farm bill approved by the conference committee will work to destroy
family farming by subsidizing the nation’s largest farms to drive
smaller
operations out of business.  It includes no limit on marketing loan
gains.
The combined limit on other farm program payments is raised to
$230,000.
To reach the limits on those payemnts, a corn soybean farm would have to
be
almost 7,000 acres.  Two siblings farming with their parents would need
to
20,000 acres to reach the limit.

A 25,000 acre California cotton farm would get an $8.4 million payment
at
current prices.  The payment to that one farm would be sufficient to
fund
the rural small business development program included in the Senate bill
but omitted from the final agreement due to insufficient funds.

Opposition is mounting.  This is a critical time to call.

Thank you!

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Chuck Hassebrook
Executive Director
101 South Tallman St., P.O. Box 406
Walthill, NE 68067
(402) 846-5428, Extn 28

Center for Rural Affairs
Values. Worth. Action

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