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DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) - The U.S. Agriculture Department is proposing changes in farm programs to better help farmers hurt by droughts, floods and other disasters, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said.
Current price support programs tend to help farmers when they grow the biggest crops, but give them too little help when they are unable to grow normal crops, he said Monday in a talk with 10 governors attending a Western Governors' Association annual meeting.
Johanns said farmers have told him "you pay me the most when I need you the least, and you pay me the least when I need you the most."
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