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Financial Spread Trading A Florida real estate developer, Texas' massive King Ranch and dozens of other giant farms are cashing in on a program created last year to bypass payment limits on federal subsidies for grain, cotton and other crops.

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Nfl Betting Spread King Ranch Inc., a Houston-based company that owns 825,000 acres, got more than $638,000 under the program, according the Agriculture Department records. In South Dakota, a beekeeper collected $280,000 in subsidies for his honey.

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Advanced Commodity Spread "It's almost a must in the agriculture business today to get some government support. I think it's a good deal,'' said Wilder, who owns a series of office buildings and mobile home parks in addition to farm holdings spread from Indiana west to Colorado and Texas.

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Stock Spread Trading The company, which also has income from tourism, leather goods and oil and gas royalties, has until now avoided taking federal subsidies.

Online Spread Betting "Frankly, the payments are limited in size. They require a lot of financial disclosure that we don't want to go through,'' said Jack Hunt, the company's president.

Complete Guide Spread Trading The House is expected to consider imposing a strict $150,000 cap on all crop-based subsidies when it takes up a major farm bill this week.

Betting Horse Racing Spread The program works this way: A farmer takes out a loan on a crop at the government's price-support rate and then pays back the loan at the local market price. So a farmer could borrow $500,000 on a crop worth $300,000 and pocket the $200,000 difference. It's known as a "certificate'' program, although no such paper changes hand; the transactions are done by computer.

Low Spread Forex Trading A wide variety of commodities are eligible, including corn, cotton, rice, sorghum, barley and soybeans. The bulk of the money paid out on the 2000 harvest - $280.5 million - went to rice and cotton interests. Two large rice-grower cooperatives in Arkansas collected nearly $150 million between them.

Sport Spread Betting Supporters of the program say the normal payment limits are too low. At last year's market prices, an 850-acre cotton farm and a 6,000-acre soybean farm would have reached the $150,000 payment limit.

Trading Spread And Seasonals But critics say the program subsidizes excess production of surplus commodities, further driving down market prices, and encourages the expansion of large farms to the detriment of their smaller neighbors.

Arbitrage Spread Trading "That's hard to see how that serves the public good,'' said Chuck Hassebrook of the Center for Rural Affairs, a Nebraska-based activist group that opposed the program. "The single most effective thing Congress could do to strengthen family farming is to stop subsidizing mega farms.''

Betting Guide Insider Sports Federal farm assistance already was skewed to large grain and cotton farms. Two-thirds of the $27 billion provided through other programs last year went to 10 percent of farm owners, the AP found.

Betting Spread Successful In a letter last week to fellow House members, Rep. Nick Smith (news - bio - voting record), R-Mich. said "unlimited government price supports for program commodities disproportionately skews federal farm aid to the largest producers.''

College Football Betting In the Senate, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, also is seeking to kill the program.

Betting Financial Risk Spread The Bush administration hasn't taken a position on it, although officials believe federal subsidies are distorting markets.

Betting Point Spread On Nfl Congress authorized the program as part of a 1999 emergency bill but left it up to then-Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to decide whether to use it.

Betting Point Spread Glickman warned at the time that the program could prove embarrassing to farmers. But he went ahead with it, he said, because cotton producers were threatening to forfeit crops to the government instead of repaying federal commodity loans.

Super Bowl Betting Spread Farmers would have made a profit off the forfeitures - which don't count toward the $150,000 subsidy limit - because the market value of the crop was less than the value of the loans, and the government would have been stuck with the cost of storing the cotton.

Betting Fan Football Guide Beneficiaries of the program say that payment caps are unfair to large farms.

Spread Betting Uk "The only way that American agriculture will survive will be for Congress to recognize that only efficient-size operations - large - will be able to provide food and fiber for this country and the world,'' said Billy Guthrie, general manager of the Panola Co. of Newellton, La., which received $694,066 under the program for its 2000 cotton crop.

Betting Betting Fan Football "We aren't flying around here in jets. We're just farming and employing and trying to stay in business,'' he said.

Betting Company Germany In Richard Adee, the South Dakota beekeeper, was lucky that the program came along at the same time that Congress revived price supports for honey that were phased out in the 1990s. Adee, who collected $282,306, says the program was "absolutely a must.''

Ig Index Spread Betting By Philip Brasher
AP - 9/30/2001

Topic: Congress

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