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Lawmakers push one-year extension of farm bill in bid to avert spike in milk prices
www.foxnews.com/ ^ | 30 Dec 2012 | AP

Posted on 12/31/2012 9:57:53 AM PST by impimp

The leaders in both parties on the House and Senate Agriculture committees have agreed to a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired in October, a move that could head off a possible doubling of milk prices next month. But House leaders have yet to say whether they will allow a vote on it.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: farm; farmer; milk; subsidies; welfare
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Cut the government spigot off for these rural leaches. Forget about funding farmers and the family farm and all of that other stuff.

Just so nobody thinks I am anti-rural. I say cut off the urban transportation funding and welfare programs used by city-dwellers. Leaches are everywhere and they need to be cut off.

Leach is a harsh word. If I could get free money I would likely take it too. That being said they should ALL be cut off.

Embrace the cliff!!!

1 posted on 12/31/2012 9:58:02 AM PST by impimp
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To: impimp

Because repealing the 1949 law that would have caused the problem would have just been too damn simple!


2 posted on 12/31/2012 10:00:03 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: impimp

I FULLY agree, it’s about time CITY-LEECHES find out what food REALLY costs.


3 posted on 12/31/2012 10:02:01 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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Dump this crapola. If milk is worth 8 bucks then it is 8 bucks. I really despise the US government having me make up the difference.


4 posted on 12/31/2012 10:04:25 AM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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Must be nice to live in such a simple world.


5 posted on 12/31/2012 10:06:32 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: impimp

I totally agree. Because of government interference we don’t know what anything costs.

I’m not sure I like the cliff unless it will result in maximizing moocher pain and I don’t think it will.


6 posted on 12/31/2012 10:08:37 AM PST by killermosquito (Buffalo, Detroit (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
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To: eyedigress

The milk subsidies would not be necessary if we weren’t burning a large share of the cattle feed for our cars.


7 posted on 12/31/2012 10:09:55 AM PST by tbw2
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To: impimp

They need to cut off the ethanol mandate. That will lower the cost of corn feed for those dairy cows and bring the cost of that milk down.


8 posted on 12/31/2012 10:10:17 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: cotton1706

Spot on. We keep ginning up the law-making machine, why don’t they go in for which ones can be deleted? EVER?


9 posted on 12/31/2012 10:10:57 AM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: cotton1706
Has anyone ever heard of the free market? They could try to double milk prices. That is if they want to have a lot of spoiled milk sitting on the shelves. Hey, some dairys might have revenues less than expenses. It's how inefficient producers are weeded out. I choose not to worry about this one..
10 posted on 12/31/2012 10:12:57 AM PST by fhayek
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Here is the BIGGEST “Leeches”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Dairy_Compact


11 posted on 12/31/2012 10:13:19 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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Still trying to wrap my head around taxpayers subsidizing 50% of every gallon of milk sold. Does the Farm Bill subdidize milk to such an extent or is this public posturing to ensure the subsidies continue?


12 posted on 12/31/2012 10:15:45 AM PST by Made In The USA (I'm not yelling, just... just talking enthusiastically..)
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To: driftdiver

You must understand that the market controls the price. We sent ships of wheat to sea in the 1930’s and sank the vessels.
8 bucks a gallon of milk would last less than a week. Farmers might have to cut back on that new Mercedes purchase.


13 posted on 12/31/2012 10:16:22 AM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: impimp

Government interference and regulation to the rescue!

Yep, that’s worked so well. Reap the whirlwind!


14 posted on 12/31/2012 10:17:13 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: eyedigress

“You must understand that the market controls the price”

You must understand the market has had little to do with the price of food for decades.

Pull out price supports and the agriculture industry, what is left of it, will collapse. Leaving the US with inadequate food resources, tends of thousands unemployed farmers, and a need to import even more food.

The subsidies need to be cut but it needs to be done in a responsible way.


15 posted on 12/31/2012 10:41:43 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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If the agriculture industry (or any other industry for that matter) depends upon government interference, then we are truly in trouble. Let producers produce, and either make it or not on their own. Food would be cheaper, even if we had to import it.


16 posted on 12/31/2012 10:50:36 AM PST by fhayek
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To: driftdiver

I guess it is time to bring the market back. Rip that government band-aid right off.

I am not a fan of anything government. You are apparently dependent on it. We could never reach a solution to the ability of government to fall into the wrong hands.


17 posted on 12/31/2012 10:50:36 AM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: driftdiver

Then let it collapse. I am not scared of the bogeymen you and others like you use to frighten us with.


18 posted on 12/31/2012 10:50:56 AM PST by impimp
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To: Uncle Chip

Milk cows don’t eat that much corn when producing milk. When they’re not producing milk, they consume some corn in their feed.

To produce milk, milk cows need protein - and lots of it. Milk production is tied to the amount of crude protein that can be put into their diet. This comes from two sources: Alfalfa hay (and hot alfalfa hay) and soybean meal (when milk cows are on “mixed rations.”)

The biggest cost inputs for dairies right now have to do with things like hay costs, diesel fuel and cost(s) of replacement heifers. In the last two years, dairies have culled their herds pretty hard due to drought, and that impacts replacement heifer costs down the line. Feed costs due to the lack of hay and pasture are simply at absurd heights.


19 posted on 12/31/2012 10:55:13 AM PST by NVDave
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That and the fact big agri has contaminated our seed stock in pursuit of mass production to feed the urban areas to the point we cannot export rice and other grains.

These 3rd world shi_-holes that are starving don’t want our food just our money.


20 posted on 12/31/2012 11:05:39 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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