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Sunday, June 02, 2013

‘Temporary’ farm subsidy program may finally meet the reaper

By David A. Fahrenthold, WashPost, Updated: Sunday, June 2, 6:31 PM

NEW YORK — The building is one of the finest on Central Park West. Celebrity residents. Park views. Units priced up to $24 million. It is most definitely not a farm.

But last year, the U.S. government sent $9,070 in farm subsidies to an apartment here.

Even the women who got that money isn’t exactly sure why.

“I really don’t know,” Lisa Sippel said.

Sippel does own farmland, but it’s in Missouri. Somebody there does the work.

Still, Sippel gets the federal payments, which were originally meant to keep small farmers afloat. “I’m kind of an absentee landlord,” she said.

(More here.)

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