Posted on 05/01/2025 6:56:09 PM PDT by Drago
(College Station, T.X., April 29, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a second round of payments coming this week for specialty crop producers through the Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program, providing up to $1.3 billion in additional program assistance. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) already delivered just under $900 million in first round payments to eligible producers.
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And they are a bit “schizo” about it...they (USDA) just cut $59 Million to the University of Idaho AG program:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/usda-abruptly-halts-59-million-020200874.html
They are being selective.
I wish they’d stop the ethanol boondoggle.
Yeah, and the solar/wind/EV subsidies too.
If they are selective, they should put organic fruits and vegetables first. Pesticides kill more than bugs.
Chuck Grassley. Ain’t going to happen. President Trump needs him.
First they took away my Red Dye #40 and now they’ll take away my pesticide flavoring? Organic stuff doesn’t have that same burn that pesticides have.
What now?
DJT is promoting farmer welfare?
What gives???
Yeah, I am guessing that farm subsidies are way down the “triage list” for DOGE (am not even sure they are “touchable”...Congress not the Executive branch hands them out?). Farm subsidies are probably the least offensive of the subsidy list (excluding the very objectionable “food as fuel” ethanol subsidies), but the term “billions of dollars” catches my eye in news items. Especially when interest on the national debt is consuming 20% of Federal revenue.
As an American farmer/rancher I never asked Uncle Sugar for any money, but I’ll take it! Hell, some of it is my own money stolen with taxes.
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