How subsidies screw small farms

Smaller, family  farms, far from benefiting from America's vast agriculture subsidies, actually get screwed according to an article in the Washington Post {picked up by the Idaho Business Review).

Sample quote: “The very policies touted by Congress as a way to save small family farms are instead helping to accelerate their demise, economists, analysts and farmers say. That's because owners of large farms receive the largest share of government subsidies. They often use the money to acquire more land, pushing aside small and medium-size farms as well as young farmers starting out.”