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- GRAPEVINE, Page 21A Bumper Crop Of Loopholes
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- What do you give the farmer who has everything? How about
- a copy of the Lawyer's Guide to Payment Limitations, a $20 book
- for farmers (and their financial advisers) who want to bone up
- on ways to skirt the law that limited agricultural subsidies to
- $250,000 a person. A brochure for the 195-page opus boasts that
- it "contains annotated text, checklists, and sample pleadings"
- to help haymakers boost their government-supported income.
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- The guidebook was published by the University of Arkansas'
- National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information,
- a distinguished institution, to be sure. In fact, it receives
- nearly all its funding -- more than $1.8 million since 1988 --
- from guess who. Yup, the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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