Posted on 07/30/2021 11:27:28 PM PDT by weston
Thanks!
Farming is under attack - especially the small family-owned farm.
Those who finance farms up here (The FCC) now have it in their mission to make small farms comply with the globalist agenda. They are going to be railroaded into getting out of the meat production, because it’s “not sustainable”. Dire times ahead. My daughter has called the FCC and they confirmed that they are going to give points for how globe friendly your farm is, and if it’s not, no money for you. Meat is their target, for sure.
My daughter and son-in-law raise pigs and sheep - mostly sheep. They’re trying to get out of the hog side, but it’s been uber expensive to convert barns, buy and raise breeding animals, etc. Up here, they’re coming after the farmers, big time.
This is the reason we’re going to have to help them out when the house closes. They need to NOT need the FCC financing. They are expecting to have to sell the meat underground and off the radar one day soon.
“An Illinois tax agency has ruled that former President Donald Trump is due a $1 million refund on the 2011 tax bill for his downtown Chicago skyscraper, but local officials are trying to block the refund.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that at issue is the Cook County Board of Review’s estimation of the value of the the Trump International Hotel & Tower’s rooms and retail space. In June, the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board voted 5-0 to reduce the assessment on the building’s commercial property.
The vote means that Trump is owed $1.03 million, money that would come out of the property taxes due the city of Chicago, the Chicago Public Schools and several other government agencies. The Cook County State’s Attorney is disputing the refund and has filed a lawsuit with the Illinois Appellate Court in the hopes of blocking it.”
More at link..........
A lot of small farms will sell you an animal, and you can send it to be processed. And you can specify cuts and ground meat you want. If it’s too much people can go in on it together. My ex inlaws raised cattle, very small herd, and did that. The cattle had a great life, i have a picture of me somewhere feeding them pumpkins on Thanksgiving.
Another option is CSA (community supported agriculture), both in the US and Canada. Mostly vegetables and fruit, but also things like honey, meat and eggs. I’ve even seen cheese and butter and other processed goods. This may be the way I go to start eating in the future.
Judy, this link is specific for Canada and I bet y’all already know about it. https://knowwhereyourfoodcomesfrom.com/community-supported-agriculture-csa-farms/canada/
Anyone in the US can just search via their favorite method ‘CSA near me’.
The dispute is the latest chapter in a long-running legal battle over Trump’s tax bills that started more than 12 years ago and has led to more than $14 million in tax breaks for Trump. It also involves not only a former president who is at the middle of a host of legal battles but a Chicago alderman whose own legal troubles had been making headlines in Chicago for months.
Alderman Edward M. Burke, whose former law firm, Klafter & Burke, won the tax breaks for Trump, has been indicted on federal charges that he blocked businesses from getting city permits unless they hired the firm. He has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.
The dispute over the tax bills on the high-rise building has it’s own long history. Originally, the state agency rejected Trump’s argument that the vacant stores had no value because he could not find any tenants to lease them. A hearing officer for the state agency rejected Trump’s argument that the vacant stores at the building had no value because he couldn’t lease them. But a staff member later wrote a report that Trump was entitled to the refund.
... Thanks exit! Thanks a lot!
Thank you, good link.
Thank you, Spirit.
Natalie ran a little farm market for a few years. She had so many customers. She started out with a CSA where we filled big bushel baskets full of her fresh produce. She also has free-range eggs, honey, every vegetable and some fruit. Plus she sells the free-range lamb, chickens, etc. She then decided to just turn it into a full market stand and it was so nice. Only open 2 days a week, lots of customers, and we even baked pies and offered pickled goods on the sly.
The timing was wrong. Three kids, all under 8 at the time. The garden to offer all of this produce was HUGE. She and the kids spent hours and hours pulling weeds and harvesting, etc. It was just too much. She felt like their young years were being spent hurrying them along to get things done, hours in the garden weeding, getting everything ready for the little store, etc. It was all-consuming. She gave it up, at least for the time being. Now the youngest is coming up for seven.
She hasn’t fully recovered from the busyness of the market, and add home-schooling on top of that. Now she plants almost as big a garden because she’s putting everything down and wants enough food in the freezers (she has six of them) in case of shortages. Scary times. I do as much as I can to help, but at times she gets a little over-whelmed.
Looks like a good link, Spirit. I’m sending it to her. Thanks very much.
Oh goodness....I didn’t realize it included the US as well! I had searched specifically for Canada. LOL
This is the one I normally use: it has not just CSAs, but also farmers markets, pick your own locations, and just local farms in general. https://www.localharvest.org (it keeps defaulting to my location; if it still does, just change the default!)
Yeah, that’s done a lot here. The same place that slaughters and packages whatever people bring in also buys local cows from a farmer and that’s what’s in their beef section. Same with chickens so the parts aren’t a humongous as at Food City, etc. The poor chickens raised for meat in some places are so top heavy they can barely walk.
Wonderful to hear some common sense from Mexico.
Its such a shame and I’m sorry it’s happening to your daughter. I’m sorry its happening to us consumers! So is it easier without having to take government loans?
I am hoping that California has had enough. Larry Elder would make a great Gov.
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Judy, you have a great daughter. I love when you talk about her and her farm. You should be proud. I’m proud of my daughters too, and my sons, but none of them were raised or married into farming.
What Great Lake are you by? We would be glad to buy some lamb.
We haven’t come to that point yet, Rusty. She’s looking at what’s on the horizon. They are aiming to have about 600 lambing ewes shortly, but I don’t know if they will be able to market them where they do now. She may have to go back to running the market stand....lots of work, but the kids are older and we’ll be living there and be able to help a lot more.
It’s a long story, but they were completely taken advantage of and exploited when they bought this farm 11 years ago. They were only 24 years of age and they had to take on far too much debt to be able to make it work. Plus they’ve done nothing but add to the debt because it was a run-down, poorly maintained operation. They saw no financials, and it’s been a money pit ever since. One thing after another broke down, equipment needed to be purchased, the home needed so much renovation, and they had to spend hundreds of thousands to change the operation from pigs to sheep.
It was disgusting how they were exploited, but we will hopefully be able to turn things around for them.
Bless your heart, Rusty, but I don’t think we can take it across the border. Thank you. They are in Hagersville, Ontario. About 15 minutes from Lake Erie.
What gets me is....people want to eat healthy, organic, natural, ‘clean’ foods, but they want us to eat highly processed fake ‘meat’! I don’t care that it started with natural ingredients-how much and what kind of processing did you have to do to get it to where it is now? I found it hilarious during the food shortages last year, that the meat coolers were bare of meat, but the Beyond Meat products were still easily available!
I know there’s been soy burgers and bean burgers available for years. I told a friend of mine (the gun-shooting, bbq competing one) that if I couldn’t get meat, that fake stuff was not passing my lips! I’ll cook up a pot of beans and eat cornbread like my ancestors; they were living on a complete protein before we ever knew there was such a thing.
We have that here. When I lived in California we actually had some pretty good farmers market, complete with music and dancing.
Where I live is mostly known as an agricultural area, though we do have some businesses here. People here don’t want oilfield workers, and I don’t blame them. Don’t want illegals either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Angelo,_Texas
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