Posted on 11/04/2021 3:45:42 PM PDT by chuckles
Dern’d ole people....
Commies do what commies do.
happens all the time
so kinda like abortion
Yup.. $650 an acre to plow under soybeans. Growers are giddy.
Ditto that!!
Yes. In reading FDR’s Folly about the Great Depression he ordered exactly that to drive up farm prices.
It’s not the first time it’s happened
Precisely
I knew of a guy years ago, alfalfa, corn, other crop farmer paid not only to destroy crops but not to grow them.
I used to hang out at a friend’s gunstore one night a week to shoot the breeze, use his shop for projects, give medical advice, this character was a regular and a hoot to listen to.
I asked him if he harvested the meat from the deer he was taking out with his suppressed weapons and, shocked, he looked at me and said “f$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.
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
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.
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.”
And isn't the purpose to preserve the soil, and maybe prevent another Dust Bowl?
A good memory for me is smelling the oil sealed road at my grandfather’s house on a hot day when I was young.
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.
Orange futures.
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...
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