and quite a few other wealthy "farmers". It seems they rake in quite a bit each year from farm subsidizies. From the article:

NBA star Scottie Pippin, for example, accepted more than $131,000 for a farm interest in Arkansas, while billionaire media mogul Ted Turner took more than $217,000 for his farm in Montana. Likewise, Mellon bank heir, Seward Prosser Mellon, received more than $163,000 for farms in Pennsylvania and Idaho. Susanne Fleek of the Environmental Working Group says she isn't surprised. "Our analysis shows that more than $500 million has gone to some of out biggest cities in this county and to people you and I would not consider farmers."



What's really surprising is the number of so-called farmers listed as living in the city of Pittsburgh where there are no farms. Over a five-year period, 161 city residents were paid $1.5 million of your tax dollars to subsidize their farms.

Much of the money $652,000 -- went to an uptown doctor and his wife. Dr. Frank Bauer received $426,000; his wife got an additional $18,000; and their Nebraska-based corporation, Ranch Spur, Inc, got another $118,000.



The linked article has an embedded link to the Environmental Working Group. I don't anything about the organization or it's credibility, but they have a lot of stuff on farm subsidizies. A couple years ago, they raised a stink when they published a list of who received what in the way of farm subsidizies. Perhaps a new list is on the site. I didn't take the time to look.

There's an article on their site that supports Scott's statement about how subsidizies are causing the demise of the family farm.