Farm Aid is a national organization that provides grants to family farms in order to support a locally based agricultural system.
But yesterday I found out about corporate sponsorship at Farm Aid, an organization that supports family farmers and that Neil Young helped to found.
Chinese billionaire Chen Guangbiao is a one man Farm Aid show.
The auditors call for a more balanced distribution of farm aid, either by capping higher individual payments or by assessing the specific circumstances of the farms.
As well as increasing aid to wheat and cotton farmers, the package diversifies farm aid to cover producers of milk, lentils, honey, chickpeas, mohair and other products.
Farm Aid needs corporate sponsors to help underwrite the costs of its 2013 concert event, which will increase the resources available to support its work with family farmers.
According to Jennifer Fahy, communications director of Farm Aid, fresh produce is tastier and has more nutrients than food that has been picked early and stored for long periods of time.
The European Union and the United States agreed to remove subsidies on agricultural exports and to reduce other farm aid in a deal that rescues the Doha world trade talks .
Some critics say the new farm aid has more to do with politics and land values, steady for some years after a sharp rise in the early 1990s, than with farm incomes.
The Democrats vowed to try again, and the farm aid issue will be one of dozens fiercely debated as Congress acts on the various government appropriations bills - meaning the meat of the budget - when it returns in September.
In addition, a recent farm-aid bill signed by the president in May further stirred criticism over US trade policies.
The two biggest budget items, farm subsidies and regional aid, are both administered locally and regularly throw up fraud scandals.
Mr Kennedy repeated his party's thesis that the Eisenhower Administration has done too little, too slowly about such matters of national concern as the rate of economic growth, the farm problem, federal aid to education, and health insurance for the elderly.
It would cut farm subsidies, Medicare, student aid, housing subsidies for the poor, and funding for community development grants.
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The focus on eliminating export subsidies, which are used far more by the Europeans than by America, obscures the fact that America's export credits and its food-aid programme distort global farm trade too.
Chris Mullen, director of technology research at State Farm, noted that the insurer set up a website last fall to aid beginning drivers and their parents.
The festival raises money for Greenpeace, Oxfam and Water Aid, while Mr Eavis' other green measures include recycling food waste on the working dairy farm, meaning he has not needed to use chemical fertilisers for almost 40 years.
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