[Blunderfromdownunder]

No obfuscation, for those willing to read the article (and all my subsequent comments) the subsidies are over ten years and are in NZ dollars because its a NZ soure ceporting. The amount is reported in toto for 10 years (rather than in an annual chunk) because this is how spending bills tend to be written. As for your poor, inefficent American farmers, they should get over it...If they cant make a go of it on their own by becoming more efficient, by diversifying etc etc they should get out of the business and not rely on government handouts to support them; that is what a market economy is all about. THats what NZ and to a lesser extent, Australians farmers have had to do over the last 15 years, resulting in the leanest and most efficent agricultural industries in the world.

[Red Jones]

yes, Blunder, you're right it says 10 years at the end of the article;

The large majority of world's nations either protect or subsidize their agriculture industries, I believe virtually all of them do. Everyone wants to protect their ability to produce food.

Also, a lot of this money must be for the grain purchases they do to give away grain as charity to North Korea and others.