[neverdem]

The Dot Matrix, Reloaded - How do you ban assault weapons when you can print them?

STUDENTS WARD OFF HOME INTRUDERS WITH AR-15 Rochester, NY

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[neverdem]

The Dot Matrix, Reloaded - How do you ban assault weapons when you can print them?

STUDENTS WARD OFF HOME INTRUDERS WITH AR-15 Rochester, NY

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[FredZarguna]

Even by New York standards, 300 cows, while above average, is not a “large” dairy farm. But as usual the environazis have no real rationale for this decision. How is the runoff any different for a farm of 400 split into two herds of 200 cows each (by, say, inheritance) with access to the same watershed? Yet one is required to obey nitrogen restrictions while the other two are exempt.

[Right Wing Assault]

Cuomo, what are you doing helping business? Aren’t you worried they are going to throw you out of the Club for Anti-growth?

Oh, there is an ulterior motive. OK, I understand.

[BroJoeK]

from the article: "Environmental groups are pushing back against Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration’s plan to support a growing yogurt industry by easing regulations on large-scale dairy operations."

FredZarguna: "Even by New York standards, 300 cows, while above average, is not a “large” dairy farm."

Right Wing Assault: "Cuomo, what are you doing helping business?"

muawiyah: "This is where Conservatism leaps in to protect the status quo, no matter how evil it might be, unless the Democrats and their running dog lackeys GIVE UP SOMETHING WE WANT!"

All this is not so difficult, once you see the basics:

• New York farming ranks 26th in the nation, employing over 100,000 people on 36,000 farms, with net sales around $4.5 billion.

• NY's 36,000 farms use around 7 million acres, or 200 acres per farm.
  NY farms use 25% of all NY land, and around 50% of tillable land.
  More than half of NY farms sales go to dairy products, for which NY is 4th in the nation (after California, Wisconsin & Idaho).
  No other NY agricultural products (i.e., grapes & other fruit) come even close.

• But contrast today's numbers to those of 130 years ago, when NY had 241,000 farms averaging around 50 acres per farm, and using virtually all land suited for farming.
  Today farms continue to decline by 200 per year, taking 60,000 acres out of farming.

• New York's average dairy farm has 133 cows, compared to 180 nation-wide, and over 1,000 per farm in states like California.

Bottom line: every year the total number of farms, farmers and cows declines, while milk production per cow increases.
So, farms which were once classified as "large" are now considered "small". Therefore, increasing New York's "small farm" limits from 200 to 300 cows is a more-or-less routine adjustment to changing economic reality.

Remember, farmers in general are natural Republicans -- you might say they are the base of our base -- unless we find new ways to abuse them, which let us pray, we will not ever do.

As for muawiyah extracting more concessions from Liberals, well, good luck with that, FRiend... ;-)