Farm Subsidies Introduction Questions 1-12 are based on the following passege and supplementary material. Passage 1 is odopted from Nicholas Heidorn, "The Enduring Political Illusion of Form Subsidies." C2004 The Independen Institute. Originally Published August 18, 2004 in the San Francisco Chronicle. Possage 2 is C2015 by Mark Anestis. Since 1922, the US government has subsidized the agricultural industry by supporting the price of crops (commodity subsidies), paying former let their fields go follow (conservation subsidies), helping formers purchose crop insurance (crop insurance subsidies), and compensating farmers for uninsured losses due to disastera (disaster subsidies). The following passages discuss these programs. 3) Muneres Passage 1 Something is rotten down on the farm. A recent General Accounting Office study found that the U.S. form subaidy program, a multibilion- dollar system of direct payments to American formers, uses administrators who are ill-trained and poorly monitored, and who give away Question 2 The first sentence of Passage 1 refers primarily to the outhor's belief thot the American government is not doing enough to help smell formers. some American farmers are violating the low. a federal egricultural program is unfoir and ineffective. American formers are struggling to compete in international markets Seve and Continue >