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[July 27, 2007]  (AP) The Bush administration is complaining that the House farm bill spends too much on farm subsidies. Yet food stamp entitlements and other nutrition programs administered by the Agriculture Department are a much bigger piece of the $286 billion pie. All numbers below are five-year estimates.

  • Subsidies and other help for farmers, $42 billion.

  • Conservation programs designed to help protect the land, $25 billion.

  • Food stamps and other nutrition programs, $190 billion.

  • Other, including rural development, research and energy programs, $29 billion.

[Associated Press]

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