[Homestead] Local fresh food production stymied by USDA
Rob
becida at comcast.net
Sun Mar 2 17:38:04 EST 2008
The way I read it was the land owners would loose
ALL their subsidies if they allowed ANY of their
land to be used for vegetables or fruit. I'm sure
they do this farming for the money and to be cut
out of the govt trough because they rented some
land to a guy to grow watermelons?
Congress still goes to the highest bidder.
Rob
becida at comcast.net
At 3/2/2008 12:55 PM,Lynda wrote:
>Am I reading this correctly? The guy is offended that land being used and
>producing an income won't get a subsidy for something they don't produce?
>Gee, I'm heartbroken that the owner of the property can't be double dipping!
>
>Lynda
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue at ruralize.com>
>
>Ive discovered that typically, a farmer who grows the forbidden
>fruits and vegetables on corn acreage not only has to give up his
>subsidy for the year on that acreage, he is also penalized the market
>value of the illicit crop, and runs the risk that those acres will be
>permanently ineligible for any subsidies in the future. (The penalties
>apply only to fruits and vegetables if the farmer decides to grow
>another commodity crop, or even nothing at all, theres no problem.)
>
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