Posted on 06/02/2023 9:23:14 PM PDT by Beave Meister
A few weeks ago, 42-year-old Jared Bossly ventured out into his farm to plant alfalfa.
Bossly’s farm in Brown County, South Dakota has been owned by his family for four generations. They grow corn, beans, and alfalfa in addition to raising cattle. They also plant trees all over the property as a windbreak to protect the herd.
Bossley has put his entire life into his work, and has passed those values along to his children. He and his 17-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son work on the farm daily to do the right things for the land.
Every spare penny the Bossly family has goes into their farm. Interviewing Bossly, I was struck by the level of care they put into their work.
On this particular day, he was nine miles away from his residence when he received a text from his wife, who works as a nurse but was home that day on leave from her job while recovering from gallbladder surgery.
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Senators Thune(R) & Rounds(R) and Congress critter “Dusty” Johnson(R) are NOT about making South Dakota great, much less better.
Everyone must boycott and defund the GOP.
They are evil, against real Americans and
destroy every business they can.
NO MORE GOP. EVER.
Sounds like a good way to get shot to me.
People move out to the country expecting to get privacy. It is amazing how many people just appear at your door when you live on a farm. It happens almost every day.
My parent’s property was taken for a train project that failed dismally. They received a fraction of what the actual value of that property was. Through legal maneuvering the transit authority avoided paying my parents legal expenses which were more than what they received for the property.
The case was so outrageous that the legislature enacted a new law which was signed by the governor so that “it would never happen to anyone else”, but no funds were ever used to reimburse my parents. And the law was just meaningless fluff.
The “green energy” mentioned in the title of the article is corn ethanol which President Trump is current promoting in Iowa. Get rid of “food as fuel” and problem solved, no CO2 pipeline needed.
Also, why isn’t the pipeline agreement an “easement”/right-of-way issue and not an eminent domain issue? Most pipelines are operated with landowners farming right over the top....the pipeline company has an easement for inspections/repairs.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101084119
My biggest issues with Trump are corn to gasohol, love of eminent domain takings and attacking GOPeers ilo attacking ‘Rats 24/7/365.
[Listening to Chris Christie and Linda are also very problematic.]
My advice is to get an electric gate. Anyone determined enough can get through it, but the gate makes it so there is no excuse for "getting lost" and wandering up to the door for directions. Made a huge difference in our case.
My advice is to get an electric gate. Anyone determined enough can get through it, but the gate makes it so there is no excuse for "getting lost" and wandering up to the door for directions. Made a huge difference in our case.
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Twitter feed had several posts about this. To quote,
@RobertKennedyJr
“Huge eminent domain land seizures in ND to build a carbon capture pipeline. Whether it is oil pipelines through tribal sacred lands, or supposedly “green” pipelines through farms, it’s often the little guy who gets screwed by national energy policy.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
@RobertKennedyJr
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Jun 1
Huge eminent domain land seizures in ND to build a carbon capture pipeline. Whether it is oil pipelines through tribal sacred lands, or supposedly “green” pipelines through farms, it’s often the little guy who gets screwed by national energy policy.
“This kind of “solution” to climate change is another high-tech mirage that sacrifices landscapes, ecosystems, and people for a theoretically better future. It’s an outrageous boondoggle that will turn Americans against clean energy.”
I don’t agree with RFK jr in every issue but I agree with his take on this. I also wonder if I missed if the rest who threw their hat in the ring have commented on this land grab.
I believe the Kelo project was abandoned. Too bad for the homeowner.
Ethanol industry using eminent domain to destroy family farms is disgusting.
I despise Rinos even more than Rats. Bottom dregs of humanity on both counts.
I don’t know if the farmer actually threatened to shoot the surveyors or not, but if he did, he violated Tuco’s first law. “ If your going to shoot, shoot, don’t talk”.
It’s a blog...
Why not post the whole thing right here?
little pink house , great movie
My first house was seized to make room for a park bathroom and parking lot. I despise government with a red hot passion. All because a city council member didn’t want to have to look at our houses from the river walk. That was my first experience with how corrupt and filthy any one in government becomes.
“NO MORE GOP. EVER.”
Agree, the Democrats, and their judges, will be FAR BETTER at protecting property rights, just as they are with all other rights, starting with the Second Amendment.
Folks, for the most part, are nice and have a good reason to be a half mile up the driveway.
Green Acres wasn’t a comedy. It was a documentary!
When i was a kid our friend’s house was seized to build a highway interchange that never happened. Fifty years later, the house still sits there, abandoned.
I decided, back then, that government should not be trusted with too much power.
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