Bumper Cherry Crop Turns Sour

WSJ ^

[GOPJ]

Well, we kill perfectly good cars - are so far into debt that it'll take us a thousand years to get out from under it - and now this? What's next? Will they try to screw up heath care?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2322458/posts?page=12#12

[piasa]

I wonder what percentage of the average American family’s food budget is nothing more than expense due to government tinkering with prices?

[freekitty]

What and spoil their image? A democrat truly charitable?

[bamahead]

Under a Depression-era federal program designed to keep prices from plummeting, tart-cherry farmers are being told by fruit processors to leave up to 40% of their crop unharvested.



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[JrsyJack]

If I recall correctly the Feds bought up excess dairy production at market prices and stored it as millions of pounds of cheese and butter in the 70’s. I vote that the Fed now bake millions of cherry pies and have a bake sale to balance the budget. I'll pay a couple of bucks for an Obama pie...would even be willing to toss it back at my Congressman in November.

[JrsyJack]

Well...there is a dairy compact that artificially inflates milk prices, all corn is now subject to competition with the gov’t subsidized ethanol industry, wheat is price controlled as are most other grains, all imported off season fruits and vegetables are subject to gov’t tariff and then there are the taxes....

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[monday]

“The best approach is to throw the unusable crop into the ethanol hopper.”

better yet make cherry wine

[Old Professer]

Ethanol for fuel is currently under $1.60/gal; for drinking, about $120.00/gal.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) And that opens the door for cherry sherry...

[OB1kNOb]

That needs updated to reflect around 3.5 - 4 million job casualties.