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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: chuckles

My neighbor farmers are destroying corn and soybeans with combines and hauling it off to market in semi-trucks.

This claim is BS.


61 posted on 11/04/2021 5:22:45 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: metmom; chuckles

I’ve already de-bunked this tic tok thing 2 times earlier this summer.

It’s not true.

https://www.mashed.com/585737/tiktok-totally-fell-for-this-big-lie-about-us-farmers/


62 posted on 11/04/2021 5:43:42 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: setter

I know theyhave paid farmers to let fields rest a season so they don’t get overdepleted of minerals.

Isnt it every 7th year, you let a field fallow/rest?


63 posted on 11/04/2021 5:48:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: setter
This story is total bs and has already been debunked.

I come from a farming background and the govt has never paid farmers to destroy crops. They have paid farmers for not growing crops

So a farmer who has just planted his grain, decides to plow it under and apply for the subsidy on his lower forty acres is never possible.   Your equivocation appears hollow and disingenuous.

Editor’s Note: Robert Frank, who recently guest-blogged for several weeks here at the Business Desk with answers to some of life’s economic ironies, once again answers questions posed by viewers.

Question: Why does the government pay farmers not to grow crops?

Robert Frank: Paying farmers not to grow crops was a substitute for agricultural price support programs designed to ensure that farmers could always sell their crops for enough to support themselves. The price support program meant that farmers had to incur the expense of plowing their fields, fertilizing, irrigating, spraying, and harvesting them, and then selling their crops to the government, which stored them in silos until they either rotted or were consumed by rodents. It was much cheaper just to pay farmers not to grow the crops in the first place.

Of course, paying people not to do work is bound to be politically awkward (think of the old New Yorker cartoon of an accordion player on a subway platform with a sign next to his cup that read, “Will not play Lady of Spain, 25 cents”). So the government described the program as an environmental one rather than an income maintenance scheme. As described to the public, it was compensation to farmers for retiring acreage to reduce fertilizer and pesticide runoff into the nation’s water supply.

Why Does the Govt. Pay Farmers to Not Grow Crops?
64 posted on 11/04/2021 5:48:47 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: Grampa Dave

I remember when the poor kids I grew up around had huge collections of usda tins of wheat, bricks of butter and cheese, half racks of meat, and any number of actual food products from the usda . Now with the ebt they don’t even give away the food they require farms to destroy.


65 posted on 11/04/2021 6:46:47 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Organic Panic

A lot of it goes to schools for the lunch programs, or it did in past years.


66 posted on 11/04/2021 6:48:01 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: carriage_hill

“...leaving ground fallow...”

entirely different than destroying crops


67 posted on 11/04/2021 6:54:07 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: setter

As a farmer, I gotta tell you this is total BS.


68 posted on 11/04/2021 6:58:29 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: chuckles

During the 1930’s it happened. More like paid not to grow anything


69 posted on 11/04/2021 6:59:57 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag, and that)
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To: KingLudd

Around the York-Lancaster (PA) area, they do leave ground fallow, and get paid for it, but I’ve never heard of any farmers purposely destroying crops.


70 posted on 11/04/2021 7:31:45 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Parmy

“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.”

French and British war purchases.
Britain went broke buying war materials from us. Only Lend-Lease kept them from going under.


71 posted on 11/04/2021 10:16:27 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: chuckles
Ok, What I've been finding out from people that deal in farms right now is it's because of the pandemic that the USDA is writing letters to various farmers to destroy their crops. We all know farmers have been paid not to grow things for decades, but this was unusual to be told to destroy crops until lately.

The explanation comes from the restaurants remaining closed longer than anyone knew.There is a fixed amount reserved for the hungry and food banks. Most crops go to restaurants and a certain amount goes to grocery stores. Stores have shipping troubles right now.If the restaurants don't recover soon, much of the food we have in the field will rot and not be sent somewhere else.

The picture seems to be bumper crops in the fields rotting or plowed under while store shelves are bare at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Better get some beans and rice while the getting is good. Next we will have millions fired for the shot and added to food stamp roles. Food will cost 50% more by next spring if you can get it.

72 posted on 11/05/2021 12:44:54 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: ctdonath2

Roosevelt started this during the Depression.


73 posted on 11/05/2021 1:28:35 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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