Heavily Subsidized, Inefficiently Regulated.

American agriculture is one of the most heavily subsidized sectors of the economy and one of the least efficiently regulated. The proposals here address what those subsidies actually buy — research investment, conservation programs, beginning-farmer support, crop insurance restructured to remove above-market private returns, and an end to interstate inspection barriers that block state-inspected meat from crossing state lines — so that the rules that govern food production produce the food system the country actually needs, rather than the one Farm Bill cycles have been trying to preserve.