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If you’re following the math, that means the remaining titles in the farm bill – trade, credit, rural
               development, research, forestry, energy, horticulture and “miscellaneous” – share just 1 percent
               of total spending. But that 1 percent includes marketing and research spending critical to fruit
               and vegetable growers as well as the assistance to organic and local agricultural markets.

               The share of farm bill spending that goes to SNAP and other nutrition programs has grown
               significantly since 2002, largely because program participation expanded sharply under the
               policies and economic conditions that existed during the presidencies of George W. Bush and
               Barack Obama.
               When the 2002 farm bill was passed, it was estimated that nutrition programs would account for
               only 54 percent of the spending.









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