Some have not paid farmers for their crops in two years.

Pay farmers for environmental services (clean water, fresh air, healthy soils).

We're still throwing the stuff away and paying farmers not to produce it but prices keep going up.

Critics of the program, which began in 1985, often call it "paying farmers not to farm."

He created jobs, sent food and paid farmers to reduce supply.

"Critics could no longer charge that the Government pays farmers not to farm."

Like many others, it is merely a method of paying farmers not to produce.

Since the Depression, the government has paid farmers to grow food.

So the Government expects to pay farmers far less than usual.

Paying farmers not to work has become the foundation of American farm policy.