What's The Difference ...

... between 

support help for dairy farmers as well as a host of environmental and nutrition programs that will benefit Vermonters.

and

an expensive and outdated subsidies program.

Who knows?  Well, actually, the Freeps does.

Also weighing in on the farm bill is John McClaughry responding to yesterday's posting with the following:

You're missing the dirty little secret here.
The Farm programs have NOTHING to do with "need"  of any beneficiary.
They exist to assure a sufficiently high price for everyone who produces.
This beneficial price-fixing rain falls on rich and poor alike.
No one has figured out an effective way to recapture the high-price benefits that accrue to wealthy farm corporations. If they did, those interests would sink the farm bill for everybody.