Posted on 05/08/2019 11:41:54 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Not a lot (any) details. I think this more fable than fact.
Apparently
"In 2011, David and his family learned that the precious eighty acres was going to be sold at auction within a couple of weeks."
“200 Farmers that did that, makes One wonder what could happen if those 200 Farmers REPLACED 200 USELESS bums in the U.S. House of Representatives...”
I’ll vote for that!
President Washington. President Jefferson. President Adams. President Lincoln. All Farmers before they were President.
President Carter too, but we’re still reaping the awful ‘crops’ he planted in the Middle East! :(
I hear ya!
See the better link at Post #19.
If I could, I would save every family farm. The family farm is part of Americana and essential to the fabric of America. America eats better with “local” farming more than corporate.
Good on the farmers, but who was selling the property, and how much did they lose?
Did they know it was a shady deal when they bought it from the “distant relative”?
There are literally NO SPECIFICS in this story!(2011 isn’t a specific date)
Is it a pleasant story? Yes! Is it true? Not likely!
It’s called “Clickbait” and fraudsters do this to get ‘clicks’
If somebody offers to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn, don’t show them your bank account information.
Nor any offers from a Nigerian prince.
But we could grow a bunch of extra wheat and send it to the Ruskies.
And they can trade it to the Mideast for peanuts...
Bttt.
5.56mm
There is still a sense of fair play in America. When my cousin and I were selling off our grandparents’ homestead—Dawes allotment land—the issue of mineral rights arose. There is oil on the land. When I was a boy, my Dad got a monthly oil royalty check every month for years. The oil company has since stopped pumping, but there is every expectation that the oil companies will return for production there. Anyway, because the homestead was federally-protected Indian land, the mineral rights in Oklahoma were sold separately from the property. A man showed up prepared to bid on the mineral rights, but when he found that the farmer who was buying our property was a little guy, a young man with a small family prepared to work 16 hours a day to make his farm successful, he immediately stopped bidding and allowed the farmer to go ahead and get the mineral rights. The mineral rights made the land valuable enough so that if things went bad and the farmer had to sell, the property would have enough value to keep him from getting skunked on a land sale.
Another excerpt from that link:
After David finished his story, I asked him what he thought had occurred in the Auction House that night, and without missing a beat, he looked at me with even more emotion, and said, “Respect.”
Also from the link posted in the thread:
“Since 1997, Lauri Gwilt has centered her career on assisting people from across North America to discover the connection between how they’re thinking, and how their lives go. She is co-author and co-host of The Habit of Celebration, an e-course from the Celebrate What’s Right initiative developed with former National Geographic Photographer, Dewitt Jones.”
In the article it says she got this story from “David” during one of her teaching seminars. I suppose she could have made it up - but I don’t think so.
It’s nice. But let’s face it, that land’s been auctioned twice. It ain’t profitable. I wish them luck, they’re gonna need it.
The first thing they would do is toss the fart law out the window...
Above is a link to a Farm Auction site where the guy that does the auctions also calls B.S. on the feel-good story. (I was doing a search for a real news article about the event. I’m guessing it would have been in all the local papers at the time. I didn’t find anything.)
The above article is pretty interesting. And of course, being an auction guy trying to get the most money for the owner, he is saying that even if the story IS correct, it is un-American, and rips off the actual owner/seller.
Although being an auction, I guess that would probably mean the bank took it - or the county did for no taxes paid?
Farmers work harder than any of us.
This will bring a tear to your eye. Small Town Southern Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zwq9RCeISY
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