USDA tightens eligibility rules for farm subsidies

From agriculture.com

Loopholes remain, but the USDA is tightening its crop subsidy rules by limiting who can collect a payment for managing a farm, historically one of its most porous definitions. The new regulation, to be published soon, requires people to perform at least 500 hours of management or at least 25 percent of the management work required annually to merit a subsidy check — “a very major advancement,” according to a small-farm advocate. Read the rest of the article here.