Posted by Scott in SF on February 10, 2009 at 20:10:19 from (75.61.107.17):
In Reply to: O/T Farm Subsidies posted by jhilyer on February 09, 2009 at 10:43:45:
I grew up on a farm and graduated from high school the year of the Soviet grain embargo. That summer they had a Big Bud demonstration just across the border in South Dakota. Or big tractors were a 4020 and a G1000(wish I had em now). We had a 16' chisel plow. Big Bud pulled 4 times that. I knew then would be a lot less farmers in the years ahead and my future was somewhere else. I never minded the conservation programs, we all win with clean air and water. But a free market kind of guy I hated commodity subsidies. Everyone knows the arguments against them, it is blatently unfair, hugely expensive, 75% of the $ go to 10% of the farmers, ruins small farmers and towns,corn starch is in almost everything we eat contributing to our obesity and diabetic epidemic, dumping our excess production below cost on poor countries destroys indigenous agriculture causing dependency and misery, ect. Now it is 30 years later and I own not 1 but 2 farms in North Dakota. Not a day goes by I don't thank god and congress for 1031 Striker exchanges, and for second time in my life I got the timing right. So I am sitting here in surburban San Francisco, 1500 miles from the farms. The USDA uses direct deposit to get my CRP,EQIP,CSP,WRP and WIP payments into my checking account. The commidity stuff, Direct Payments,Countercyclical Payments, Loan Deficiency Payments and Disaster Payments have to pass through my farmers before it come to me in land rents. I find this strange, I would rather have a cheap farm program/expensive food system, but this works for me. I am glad some guys are out there defending it.
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