(Politico) -- Politico.com reports that "environmentalists are taking aim at the crop insurance industry, seeking to bolster the case for a cap on premium subsidies when the Senate farm bill hits the floor in June." According to the story, environmental activists say "Washington is too quick to help large-scale farm production at the expense of investments in conservation and the land itself." The proposed Senate farm bill would create "a variety of new, highly subsidized insurance options even as it ends the system of direct payments."
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