Some claim that these aggregate figures are misleading because large agribusinesses, rather than individual farmers, receive a significant share of total subsidy spending.

Objective measures indicate that things have, indeed, become better, both for small family farmers and for large agribusinesses.

Many family farms in the Midwest and elsewhere were ruined by high interest rates and sold off to large agribusinesses.

The budget maintains, for the most part, the subsidies that generally benefit large agribusinesses.

The company is also one of Canada's largest agribusinesses, owning poultry and hog farms across the country.

The Great Southern Group in 2008 formed Australia's largest agribusiness managed investment scheme operation.

The middle class is dwindling, leaving pockets of hard poverty amid large agribusinesses supported by taxpayers.

Novartis, which has the world's largest agribusiness, gains a company with sales of $200 million and about $21 million in product inventories.

Eventually he became an executive in the Noboa Group, a large agribusiness.

And it ends up subsidizing large agribusiness.