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Has anyone heard of farmers being paid to destroy crops?
tic tok | 11-04-2021 | chuckles

Posted on 11/04/2021 3:45:42 PM PDT by chuckles

I got a bunch of Tic Toks saying Biden has sent letters to farmers to destroy their crops. They are showing farmers cutting their crops down because Biden's FDA is paying 1 1/2 times the going price and threatening their subsidies if they don't do it. They are even pouring out oil on roads to waste the oil. We will be starving in 8 months. No wonder Bill Gates has been buying all the farm land.

Has anyone else heard the same thing? I'm sure there are plenty of Freepers that live in Kansas.


TOPICS: Agriculture; Conspiracy; Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: crops; destroy; food; government; tiktoktard
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To: Grampa Dave; sunny bonobo

Dern’d ole people....


41 posted on 11/04/2021 4:27:45 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: chuckles

Commies do what commies do.


42 posted on 11/04/2021 4:28:41 PM PDT by nicollo
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To: chuckles

happens all the time


43 posted on 11/04/2021 4:32:51 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: setter

so kinda like abortion


44 posted on 11/04/2021 4:33:30 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: chuckles

Yup.. $650 an acre to plow under soybeans. Growers are giddy.


45 posted on 11/04/2021 4:34:55 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: chuckles
Remember when the AAA killed a million hogs a day?

Plow Under--The Almanacs (1941)

46 posted on 11/04/2021 4:35:29 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fido969

Ditto that!!


47 posted on 11/04/2021 4:38:10 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: chuckles

48 posted on 11/04/2021 4:39:05 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: chuckles

Yes. In reading FDR’s Folly about the Great Depression he ordered exactly that to drive up farm prices.


49 posted on 11/04/2021 4:39:23 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: chuckles

It’s not the first time it’s happened


50 posted on 11/04/2021 4:45:05 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Fido969

Precisely


51 posted on 11/04/2021 4:45:30 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: chuckles

I knew of a guy years ago, alfalfa, corn, other crop farmer paid not only to destroy crops but not to grow them.

I used to hang out at a friend’s gunstore one night a week to shoot the breeze, use his shop for projects, give medical advice, this character was a regular and a hoot to listen to.

I asked him if he harvested the meat from the deer he was taking out with his suppressed weapons and, shocked, he looked at me and said “f$ck no, I’m not eatin’ no corn rats.”

You and me, the taxpayers, sent him money every month (or quarterly, I don’t fully recall).

He used the checks for buying class 3 machine guns, suppressors, about one a month or so.

Really nice guns, Fleming conversions, M16’s, lotsa other subguns.

He once bought a pristine 3-digit blued Colt Thompson MG for something like $30k.

His other source of income? Farming.

That was about twenty years ago.

Now that I own some arable acreage, I’m looking into this scam for myself.


52 posted on 11/04/2021 4:46:18 PM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: chuckles

Product of one of the Supreme Court’s most INFAMOUS foul-ups, bleeps, and blunders: WICKARD, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. v. FILBURN, 317 U.S. 111.

Read ‘em and weep.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/317/111


53 posted on 11/04/2021 4:51:16 PM PDT by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: chuckles

Roosevelt had cattle ranchers kill their cattle to raise cattle prices. It failed, like most of Roosevelt’s policies. It was only WW2 that bailed him out of the Great Depression.


54 posted on 11/04/2021 4:55:27 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: chuckles

It’s easier to set aside acreage to not grow crops.

Meanwhile at the feed store…

“Howdy Bill! Whaddarya not growin’ this year? I’m a thinkin’ of not plantin’ 100 acres of soy and not plantin’ another huntert acre of corn.”


55 posted on 11/04/2021 5:02:33 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: setter
"I come from a farming background and the govt has never paid farmers to destroy crops.they have paid farmers for not growing crops"

And isn't the purpose to preserve the soil, and maybe prevent another Dust Bowl?

56 posted on 11/04/2021 5:05:11 PM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

A good memory for me is smelling the oil sealed road at my grandfather’s house on a hot day when I was young.


57 posted on 11/04/2021 5:05:35 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Were State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims the guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide "vaccine" tests?)
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To: ctdonath2

In May 1933 the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was passed. This act encouraged those who were still left in farming to grow fewer crops. Therefore, there would be less produce on the market and crop prices would rise thus benefiting the farmers – though not the consumers.

The AAA paid farmers to destroy some of their crops and farm animals. In 1933 alone, $100 million was paid out to cotton farmers to plough their crop back into the ground! Six million piglets were slaughtered by the government after it had bought them from the farmers. The meat was canned and given away for free to the unemployed. Though this all made perfect sense in terms of economically stabilising the farming market, many Americans could not accept this policy of destruction. Opponents of the New Deal created a simple chant for people to express their views on the AAA – “Poor Little Piggies”.

Regardless of this, the Act did make a marked improvement in the life of farmers as prices rose, evictions markedly dropped and the farmers’ income increased.

In 1936, the Supreme Court declared that the AAA was unconstitutional in that it had allowed the federal government to interfere in the running of state issues. This effectively killed off the AAA.

https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/america-1918-1939/farmers-and-the-new-deal/


58 posted on 11/04/2021 5:11:32 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Ramp it up!: Reclaim America Movement Party! (RAMP!!!!!)
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To: al baby

Orange futures.


59 posted on 11/04/2021 5:18:17 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: chuckles; sunny bonobo; Grampa Dave
The first reference I found to the US government paying farmers to
destroy crops was the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933.

Apparently they "amended" or "fixed" the original act of
1933 in 1938. Needed to make it "better" I suppose.
Didn't get all of the graft correct, the first time - etc...

60 posted on 11/04/2021 5:21:56 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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