[linn37]

I have two acres can I qualify as a farmer? I want $$ for not growing food.

[spokeshave]

"I have two acres can I qualify as a farmer? I want $$ for not growing food"

Try growing hops...at over $6.00 a lb.

Lots of mini breweries in the neighborhood ...not only has the price recently doubled...but good hops are hard to come by.

And you can always make some beer....just to make sure the recipe works ...

[chuckles]

I don't know about just 2 acres, but a friend of mine with 13 acres was contacted recently about using his land for "carbon credits". I'm not sure about all the details, but if you own land and have trees on it, or agree to plant trees, the gubmint will pay you money. When AlGore flys his jet or drives his limo, your trees could absorb his carbon and he would pay you for the privilege of feeding your trees. The transfer wouldn't change the amount of pollution, but would cost the polluter money. I figger we are talking about a gas guzzler tax, only you get it instead of the gubmint.

The thing that stuck in my craw about the farm bill was the money given to buy private land from a timber company to GIVE to the Nature Conservancy so we can't touch it anymore. I think it was $250 million in one earmark. So the Taxpayer coughs up money to pay off a timber company so we can never see the land again. I've been searching my Constitution, but I can't find the article that covers this. If someone knows chapter and verse, please enlighten me why I should give money to a private company to purchase land to give free to another private entity. I don't even get to hunt on it.