Posted on 11/04/2021 3:45:42 PM PDT by chuckles
My neighbor farmers are destroying corn and soybeans with combines and hauling it off to market in semi-trucks.
This claim is BS.
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/
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?
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.Why Does the Govt. Pay Farmers to Not Grow Crops?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.
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.
A lot of it goes to schools for the lunch programs, or it did in past years.
“...leaving ground fallow...”
entirely different than destroying crops
As a farmer, I gotta tell you this is total BS.
During the 1930’s it happened. More like paid not to grow anything
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.
“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.
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.
Roosevelt started this during the Depression.
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