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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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