re: When is DOGE going to investigate the USDA and farmers?

The reason they get bailed out is most farms are run by corporations that lobby and bring envelopes of money to bureaucrats and government officials.

Small independent farms take the money to survive and make a few bucks. They are influenced to take the money by the federal agencies and told to not rock the boat.

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Seems a little dramatic. I'm not sure why so many conservatives have a dislike for farmers. It's like the importance of food isn't completely understood. There needs to be reforms, but some of you really seem to want our food supply to be volatile.

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Reckless government spending hurts our country whether it’s poor people or farmers. We can’t be selective in where we cut and need to continue to take a chainsaw to spending. Elon said there would be pain.

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So does BigPharma, but we seem to hate them.

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We need Farm more than Pharm. Last time I tried to grow some veggies in the backyard, I had a beautiful wall of bean vines, no beans. I am not confident in my abilities to sustain my family's nutritional needs via backyard agriculture. If anything SHOULD be protected, it is the country's food supply. How is this NOT obvious?

The government completely fricks with the economics of farming. I think the government needs to step back and determine what type of market interference they should be running first. That is the first step and go from there.

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I’m uneducated on the subject but I remember reading a ton of large subsidies go to the food manufacturers that produce junk food due to welfare.

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separate issue, no? The farmers don't produce junk food. If their commodities are used to produce junk food, that's not on them.
Thats on Frito Lay .

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If farmers were actually incentivized to grow Whole Foods then this would have big downstream benefits on our health, but big cost savings in healthcare.

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Dude, farmers grow crops. They are growing "whole foods". What someone else produces with that crop isn't on the farmer. Thats like blaming a steel mill for producing steel cause Casue Ford makes a car with it.

Bigpharma isn’t keeping me alive day to day. Food producers are.

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Why are we subsidizing? Your govt is controlling the food supply. Hell, they pay farmers NOT to produce at times.

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Yes, I agree that it is effed up to pay farmers not to farm- and I know its about price controls and it sucks.

I also think food is for the living, not for gas tanks.

Investigate and fix those two items? I'm in agreement. Screwing around further than that with the nation's food supply? Please don't. I don't wanna eat ze bugs.

Just a few weeks ago in my area(NW Missouri), a reality tv series family got caught committing insurance fraud for millions of dollars. Took monies from crop insurance losses. (Steve McBee). Farms around 15-20000 acres. He pled guilty but hasn’t been sentenced yet. But yet he is still building car washes all over the area and his family has renewed for another season on Peacock. His Facebook pops up daily with his short clips. Seems like a nice enough guy, but I can’t get over he robbed me of my tax dollars.

They can start by looking at the Chinese and Indian ‘dot on forehead types’ controlling the poultry /pig farms first.

We need to do away with this type of bs.

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Section 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) provides financial assistance for farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who experienced discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in USDA farm lending prior to 2021.

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Relief for Black Farmers - Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan (ARP)

The American Rescue Plan includes two provisions to provide needed relief to Black, Indigenous, and Farmers of Color.

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But i have no issue with helping farms that actually produce food for the entire nation.