Always a few ‘farmers’ on threads like this here and on other forums. GMO is good. No, fedgov doesn’t pay us to do nothing or worse.
There are a lot of people who engage in trying to frighten people. Sometimes its done for profit. and sometimes its just trolls trying to get some lolz. This is lolz.
Commies do what commies do.
happens all the time
Yup.. $650 an acre to plow under soybeans. Growers are giddy.
Yes. In reading FDR’s Folly about the Great Depression he ordered exactly that to drive up farm prices.
It’s not the first time it’s happened
I knew of a guy years ago, alfalfa, corn, other crop farmer paid not only to destroy crops but not to grow them.
I used to hang out at a friend’s gunstore one night a week to shoot the breeze, use his shop for projects, give medical advice, this character was a regular and a hoot to listen to.
I asked him if he harvested the meat from the deer he was taking out with his suppressed weapons and, shocked, he looked at me and said “f$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.”
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...
My neighbor farmers are destroying corn and soybeans with combines and hauling it off to market in semi-trucks.
This claim is BS.
During the 1930’s it happened. More like paid not to grow anything
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.