[pointsal]

Wanna bet those same fellas benefited somewhere along the line?

[djf]

Ever price cherry juice at a store?

I think we need to deduct how much that is valued at right off the top of Congresses salary.

[ConservativeMind]

This is freaking idiotic. The world eats our cherries, not just the US.

The excess would be sold elsewhere, but all would be sold for less than normal.

I hate federal control of the economy. It guarantees failure.

[newbie2008]

[ArchAngel1983]

"It's kind of heartbreaking,"

”Yes it is. One of the first times I can remember being truly outraged was when I was a child and watching dairy farmers on TV dump thousands of gallons of milk down storm drains because the price of milk had bottomed out. My family couldn’t afford milk half the time (used that powdered stuff) so watching this was especially heart wrenching.

[Secret Agent Man]

Price fixing.

Damn just sell the 40% you don’t want in the US market overseas or in Canada. Hell, or Mexico, they don’t have a lot of food down there.

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[justiceseeker93]

Moral of the story: Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Keynesian economics is still having negative effects on the American economy 64 years after his death.

Can't the farmers who have agreed not to market a good part of their cherry crop simply donate the remainder to charities to help feed the hungry? Problem might be that there is no federal program by which that can be done./ Sarc.?

[kcvl]

federal program designed to keep prices from plummeting

How about letting the market decide?!

[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?

[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.