Posted on 06/17/2017 10:48:06 AM PDT by jcon40
In keeping with President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue launched the effort on Thursday along with representatives from 22 federal agencies that are taking on the wide-ranging initiative. The task force will work to find ways to increase jobs, housing and educational opportunities for America’s rural communities, and to remove obstacles, such as burdensome regulations, and to improve infrastructure and access to technology.
advertisement The task force held its inaugural meeting in Washington, D.C., and attendees included Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai, and other government officials.
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Rural America provides the food and energy to Everyone .... A healthy rural America is a healthy America
Cut the rules and regulations that have killed off the small farms.
Get the hell out of the way then! This is not their job, and USDA is as incompetent and meddlesome when the screw around trying to “help” as the EPA or Dept of Education. I’ve seen them piss away millions on plans and consultants doing nothing less than “rural community organizing” and most of their employees have never worked outside of govt.
This is just another piece of Obamas fake vision that needs to be dismantled!
“Get the hell out of the way then! This is not their job, and USDA is as incompetent and meddlesome when the screw around trying to “help” as the EPA or Dept of Education. I’ve seen them piss away millions on plans and consultants doing nothing less than “rural community organizing” and most of their employees have never worked outside of govt.”
As President Eisenhower said of the USDA: “It’s hard to be a “farmer” when your plow is a pencil, and you are 1,000 miles from a cornfield!”
Have to agree that government help is often counterproductive. The rural housing programs ended up building housing developments for city people to move out to and ate up productive farmland in the process. Leave us the H alone and go screw up some other domain.
//’ve seen them piss away millions on plans and consultants doing nothing less than “rural community organizing” and most of their employees have never worked outside of govt.//
Just yesterday I had to deal with them. I got an email reminding me to fill out the “Cash rents” survey. So I contacted the guy about the code (I did not receive one). He was rude, and incompetent. He said “you aren’t on my list” ok, then he said “we didn’t send out any email” so I forwarded the email I got, we went back and forth several times. Finally he decided I am not eligible for the “cash rents” survey since I’m the lessor, not the lessee which frankly makes no sense since it would verify lessee claims, and lessors are the ones who set the rent prices. Overall this is a ‘nation wide’ survey that does nothing and the guy spent an hour trying to figure out why I emailed him.
I read somewhere that most of our apple juice and garlic comes from China
What isn’t being said is that this also flies in the face of the UN program to depopulate the central United States, and moving its population to mega cities on the coasts.
Effectively dynamiting Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030, that are reliant on turning America into a 3rd world nation to succeed.
As long as companies like Monsanto, Purdue, Tyson, and Carghill have their hooks in the USDA nothing will change.
I think Trump is doing well at hacking government agencies.
Call me selfish for owning a rural farm. If this leads to ANY reduction in regulation I’m happy and so is my farm
I didn’t see this program described as being a CASH giveaway.
Supporting the idea of having many smaller growers in communities seems to be a safeguard to big farm failure.
Just another study. I don’t see the need for it.
I live rural and all I want is to be left strictly alone.
We now have high speed internet and it didn’t come from a gubment program. The roads are OK, we have water and electricity. That is enough.
I do wish the white trash around here would clean up their yards and not use the front porch for storage or a junk pile, not throw so much trash out that the highway looks like a dump, tear down the old barns and houses that are not used. Basically, just put in a little work and pride instead of being redneck slobs and ignorant and proud of it. They can’t even clean themselves well enough not to stink so why should I expect them to clean up anythng else?
I went to USDA to ask about pasture improvement one time and doing a drainage and erosion management program. I wanted to see if they had any guidance on it at all since they spend so damn much money. The “range management specialist” chickie there told me to “manage for bermuda”.
She was awfully interested in signing me up for aid programs to build cross fences though. I told her I wasn’t interested in any aid or anything with strings attached.
I’d really like to have a good water well and water ssytem for the cows though but I’ll do it on my own.
You did a lot more than I would have. I’ve put everything they send in the round file.
And that is why the USDA just needs to fold up disappear. Their time has passed.
The state extension offices are just fine for what littl ethey do and the A&M colleges and Ag foundations like Noble fill enough of the gap.
We have a big USDA office in this county. I know most of the big farmers and ranchers. None of us can figure out what they do besides inspect the upstream flood control dams and not a lot of that goes on anyway.
Wouldn’t call you selfish for owning the farm but what do you want or need the gubment to do in the way of support beyond leaving you alone?
USDA does the food stamp program. That’s right. Because it’s food SNAP is all theirs. That’s where the money is and that’s what they care about.
Yep, typical.
But hey, the cows drinking at that water tank could have wi-fi if their info-tech chickie was doing her job. Get ya a grant for some IoT (Internet of Things, not an abbreviation for Idiot, which it also usually is), is the hot topic now and outta be getting rid of that old fashioned well pump that’s worked fine since grandad bought it down at the coop and get you a shiny new “Green” pump with more crap inside to go wrong. But hey it’s all paid for with Free Money and if you don’t apply for it, well it’ll just go to someone else!
Old college room-mate is in a midwest state legislature and he periodically sends me USDA grant solitication postings - they are litereally this insane. I remember a $70K “IT Infrastructure Grant” for a town of 200 souls. All it did was put a server in the dinky little town library and a wi-fi access point. For the cows I suppose.
I just put in a router at the barn and an AP up on the barn roof that reaches out over a thousand feet in radius. The router cost less than 20 bucks and the AP was a litte more pricey at $78.
Infrastructure grant, pfffft! Graft and corruption is more like it.
Shutting off the money is the only way to stop the crap.
Food stamps is what USDA is all about. Used to be commodities now it is EBT and SNAP and WIC and whatever else so the people we are trying to help out won’t feel bad or something like that.
All we can do is complain, piss, moan and mouthe off though.
I just want to be left alone to farm and work in peace ... Wish there were fewer hassles from government when employing people
my hope re the USDA is that Trump is changing their focus to not being so controlled by big AG. Small farms are needed for communities especially if the SHTF.
I want the gov to make it easier for us to be successful not thru grants etc but by cutting regs.
A lot of the light industry that dotted rural America left. My dad worked at Admiral. Remember them? Long gone.
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