re: #162 brookly red

just curious, do they still subsidize corn? I thought that prices went up with the demand for ethanol… could be wrong, we don’t have many farms in NYC.

Found this here: United States Corn Subsidies || EWG Farm Subsidy Database

Corn Subsidies** in the United States totaled $73.8 billion from 1995-2009.

Year Subsidy Amount
1995 $2,934,905,729
1996 $2,119,058,660
1997 $2,906,300,158
1998 $5,064,623,703
1999 $7,567,377,481
2000 $8,058,490,168
2001 $5,982,553,435
2002 $2,498,438,680
2003 $3,439,944,865
2004 $5,308,631,480
2005 $10,121,533,998
2006 $5,796,986,247
2007 $3,806,081,790
2008 $4,194,744,978
2009 ** $3,975,606,299