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The cost to the government. he s trying to regulate and make sure it doesn t cost too much. it s interesting to me, i ve been watching lately about every time there is an attempt to find something to pay for something, the first or second sentence is, oh, there s this cut in agriculture subsidies. so the implication is that there s just too many agricultural subsidies that the government is involved in. do you have this point of view? with due respect to those folks i think there s a lack of understanding what those subsidies actually do. they reduce the risk of farming. think about farming today, whether it s dealing with subzero weather, the snowfall that occurred in october and basically wiped out livestock operations in the dakotas, mother nature sometimes doesn t cooperate. the bottom line is that can result in people going out of business because it s expensive to farm. the reason why we re a food secure nation is because we have extraordinarily productive people that stay in ....