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re: DeSantis promises to relocate Dept of Agriculture to Iowa
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:16 am to bhtigerfan
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:16 am to bhtigerfan
In a fricked up way, you have to incentivize American farmers to keep producing food. With rural vacant land prices as high as they are, some farmers are selling. But that land will never be used for Ag again.
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Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:18 am to El Segundo Guy
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In a fricked up way, you have to incentivize American farmers to keep producing food.
Why?
And what other industries need this sort of federal government intervention?
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:24 am to Flats
I understand where you're coming from. I hate fedgov and I hate subsidies.
I am just giving my experiences based on my whole family being Midwestern dirt farmers, my dad being in the USDA (US Forest Service) and me raising cattle in nowhere Oklahoma.
I love not having any neighbors anywhere near me and not going in to town for 10 days at a time. But the reality is that that's not very popular these days.
If we lose the heartland ti Chinese interests and DR Horton subdivisions, I guess that's OK. We'll just have cruckets for aupper.
I am just giving my experiences based on my whole family being Midwestern dirt farmers, my dad being in the USDA (US Forest Service) and me raising cattle in nowhere Oklahoma.
I love not having any neighbors anywhere near me and not going in to town for 10 days at a time. But the reality is that that's not very popular these days.
If we lose the heartland ti Chinese interests and DR Horton subdivisions, I guess that's OK. We'll just have cruckets for aupper.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:40 am to El Segundo Guy
Not having to do with subsidies per se, but there are a good amount of old ranchers having to put up ranches for sale because the kids don't want to go back to the farm to work it.
Land is too high for a new farmer to pay $1 mil+ to farm it, so it gets sold to a Chinese outfit or split up for subdivisions. And we lose great food producing land.
Land is too high for a new farmer to pay $1 mil+ to farm it, so it gets sold to a Chinese outfit or split up for subdivisions. And we lose great food producing land.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:44 am to El Segundo Guy
One more thing and I'm done. Fedgov subsidizes many bullshite things. This being a Louisiana-centric board, people are ok with subsidizing oysters, the gulf fishery, storm rebuilding, etc.
We also have to keep one of the main natural resources we have--ag land.
We also have to keep one of the main natural resources we have--ag land.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:51 am to El Segundo Guy
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If we lose the heartland ti Chinese interests and DR Horton subdivisions, I guess that's OK. We'll just have cruckets for aupper.
You don't have to be butthurt, it was an honest question. If the answer is we can't produce our own food, and that's a national security issue, then that's a good answer assuming it's accurate.
I'm against subsidies/tariffs for economic reasons, any reason that includes the word "fair", any reason that includes the word "little guy". National security and insurance polices against uncertainty are different IMO.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:53 am to Flats
I'm not butthurt man. 
I enjoy your posts and I'm just giving my 2 cents. I don't take anything personally.
I enjoy your posts and I'm just giving my 2 cents. I don't take anything personally.
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