Environmental Working Group now requesting reduction in growers’ subsidies from Congress. The Environmental Working Group (EWG), an organization based in Washington, has performed an analysis that has shown that just over 24 U.S. farm operations received more than $1 million in crop insurance premiums payments – each – in 2011, and it has now made a call to Congress to decrease those growers’ subsidies. Policyholders numbering over 100,000 received at least $100,000 each in insurance premium subsidies. The EWG explained in a statement that its calculations were based on records…
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