Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s campaigning in northern Iowa today, promising more money for agland conservation and less money for “big corporate farms.” During a stop at Waldorf College in Forest City, Kerry told the group of about 50 people that President Bush has done the bidding of corporate agriculture rather than family farmers. Kerry says it’s not only mission not accomplished, it’s mission abandoned — a reference to Bush’s speech declaring the end of major combat in Iraq, a speech delivered on an aircraft carrier in front of a “mission accomplished” banner. Kerry says two-thirds of all federal farm payments to to the largest ten percent of farm corporations, and he says that’s a “call to action.” Kerry says federal farm subsidies should be targeted toward family farmers not corporate farms.
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