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| | Federal cash keeps farmers afloat | Home News Tribune Online |
 | | In a sense, farmers like Etsch, who farms all of his 900 acres on his own, are collective victims of their own efficiency: They've produced too much. |
 | | Etsch's family farm operation, RE Etsch, spread out on parcels that range from 4 to 125 acres, received $164,610 in subsidies during the 10-year period ending last year, according to the Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C., research and investigative nonprofit that tracks the subsidies and advocates for far-reaching reform of the program. |
 | | As for the smaller, mostly family farms such as Etsch's, Cook agreed that the subsidies are a matter of survival. |
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