From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:59:04 +1200, Don Hills  wrote:

> In article , "Mark"
 wrote:
>>
>> The subsidies are to prevent them from growing too much.

> Ah, of course - the subsidies are paid to farmers to not grow crops.
> The more they don't grow, the bigger the subsidy.

Keeps the prices up.  Yes, indeed.

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Steve 
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