Market Farming

[Leigh Hauter <lh AT pressroom.com>]

Title: [market-farming] Re: Organic industry vs. organic move

> > I thought
> > farm subsidy was to help farmers make basic
> > living and operating expenses not provide free investment
> > capital?
> Hello  !!!!!!!!!!!
> What world
> are you living in.  These large Corporations have as high as
> three Corporations in them, and at a payment limitation of $500,000
> per Corporation this added up to 1.5 Mil per corp per year ag payment
> out of the government.  All of these around here are at the
> limit or over.

To add to this, I have CSA customers that work for congresspeople, some were very interested in this issue.  They report that the big money interests and the Republican party pulled out every stop to keep this limit high and to fight every effort to put a cap on payments so it would be more aimed at family farms.  Even the National Farmers' Union took a walk on this one (though you wouldn't know it from their newsletter).

Another example of powerful money interests getting their way in DC.