Posted on 03/11/2024 8:13:30 AM PDT by george76
Sam Donaldson was the third-largest recipient of wool and mohair payments in Lincoln County, N.M.— Over two years, $97,000 in subsidy checks have gone to Donaldson’s address in the Virginia suburbs of Washington... Donaldson also got $3,500 to defray livestock-watering costs…
Now there are plenty of other examples of absentee landlords receiving these farm subsidies, but it is particularly glaring that millionaire Sam Donaldson is getting this taxpayers’ money,” said D’Amato. “Sam Donaldson, give that money back.”
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19950318&slug=2110804
Many poignant comments here, including converting prime farmland into solar industrial parks (I refuse to call them farms), farmers selling out to developers, which includes solar developers, not only if they have no one to take over but because they will get paid far more per acre than what will be realized through the hard work required to cultivate and sell, and in MA, the price of land is prohibitive to farming. I just counted 5 properties on the market in a 15 mile radius listed at 1 -2.7 million. These are anywhere from 15 to 160 acres, the most expensive has a development restriction on it and must remain in “state approved farming”. The economics don’t work in these scenarios.
$1,000 in gross sales is a hobby, not a farm for income purposes. Given low profit margins, $100,000 in gross sales as a lower limit for a ‘farm’ might be too low.
Farm Bill - 80% goes to SNAP , up from 76% in 2018.. of which 30% of that goes to the purchase of sugary drinks and non-farm items..
Plus bribes to congress critters, journ-0-lists , and their pals.
Ping !
He's certainly gone silent against the leftists, hasn't he.
Beautiful yet tragic image. It reminds me much of Thomas Cole’s “The Course of Empire” series.
Never fear. All the rockers will put on a farm aid concert.
Yes. I have seen that happen too often in my area. So sad.
We don’t need farms. We can buy our food at supermarkets now.
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I’ve heard we have a rise in corn cobs use thus the reduction in
need for toilet paper. Gotta make use of all those products that
were trashed in the past.
“Would have” may mean a farmer stored his crop one season to be sold in another, or one’s normal crop was diminished by drought, unusually low prices, or other disaster.
Well, with a 17% increase in production (after accounting for inflation), and a large export market, I doubt that producing enough food is a problem. The price with inflation is, though.
In my area we see mostly MORE land being cleared to go into production. I’m not sure what the dynamic is — we do grow lots of corn, and perhaps some of that increase goes into ethanol.
how many of these farms do you think gates bought ?
Farms around me are being converted into subdivisions at a rapid rate around here. I used to live way out of town. Now I am in town and I haven’t moved.
Sure seems like that’s where it’s headed - in a hurry
“..The bread basket of the world will soon be a bread-line for handouts - a third world country....”
It’s coming.
We’ll become worse off than Rhodesia, the breadbasket of Africa.
We’ll devolve into like Haiti with gangs cooking and eating people they kill.....
Had no idea that it was this many farms gone in such a short period of time. Shocking!
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