Many people feel very strongly about this subject including my family. Coming from a rural community and a family and many friends composed of mostly farmers and ranchers I see the importance of agricultural subsidies. In order to learn though we must have an open mind and look at the issue from both angles with no prejudice or bias opinions; there are always pros and cons to every issue. So first I am going to talk about the cons of subsidizing our farmers. The first major con of subsidizing our farmers is that is cost our tax payers over $44 billion annually. This is a huge chunk of money especially when the government also has to fund other things as well. Another con is in order for farmers to even get these subsidies they must follow a
