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Location: SE Missouri | After a pledge to not reopen the Farm Bill, they have thrown crop insurance into the new budget bill. If you are touched by American agriculture, then PLEASE call and ask to do no harm to crop insurance. If you have questions about crop insurance, I'll be glad to explain. Farmers DO pay a premium and hope that they don't have to use it. It saves the taxpayers from shouldering a 100% government funded disaster payment.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/258298-how-the...
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I heard about this a day or 2 ago, but haven't been able to find any details. They already docked us 6.8% of the money owed on claims from the 2014 crop that they haven't even paid out yet. We already willingly swallowed a $30 billion cut when asked for $23 billion. I'd say we have done our part. What are we, 1/4 of a percent of the federal budget? The safety net can make a HUGE difference for a small producer in a bad year. Domestic food security is worth the investment, IMO. |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Just more steps for the government to come in and take over the farming and ranching industry. They've already done a great job putting many of the small farmers and ranchers out of business.
This affects all of us. We are talking about our food sources.
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Miracle in the Making
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| Three 4 Luck - 2015-10-28 2:27 PM I heard about this a day or 2 ago, but haven't been able to find any details. They already docked us 6.8% of the money owed on claims from the 2014 crop that they haven't even paid out yet. We already willingly swallowed a $30 billion cut when asked for $23 billion. I'd say we have done our part. What are we, 1/4 of a percent of the federal budget? The safety net can make a HUGE difference for a small producer in a bad year. Domestic food security is worth the investment, IMO.
totally agree i am noy happy or am i buying smithville ham which was a family staple i check to see where my food comes from but its hard they are sneaky bastards
i try to buy american and its not really that hard with the internet |
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| Fed crop insurance has been the biggest farmer scam in ag history........welfare at its worst
Edited by FOAMed 2015-11-02 12:42 PM
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Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | FOAMed - 2015-11-02 12:41 PM Fed crop insurance has been the biggest farmer scam in ag history........welfare at its worst
Please explain. |
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| FOAMed - 2015-11-02 12:41 PM Fed crop insurance has been the biggest farmer scam in ag history........welfare at its worst
You might be getting crop insurance and crop subsidies mixed up .... two totally different programs. |
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| no....not mixed up at all......just farmers farmin for insurance....which over the last decade has been quite lucrative....but was lucrative long before that.....
also very lucrative for the insurance side.....at the taxpayers expense of course
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Location: north dakota | FOAMed - 2015-11-02 2:15 PM
no....not mixed up at all......just farmers farmin for insurance....which over the last decade has been quite lucrative....but was lucrative long before that.....
also very lucrative for the insurance side.....at the taxpayers expense of course
Have you ever farmed before on your own? |
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| you should probably let those that know about farming have the conversation....and yes, i have..... |
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Location: north dakota | FOAMed - 2015-11-02 2:32 PM
you should probably let those that know about farming have the conversation....and yes, i have.....
I'm guessing i know who this is so I will leave this conversation |
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| probably a good choice.... |
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | FOAMed - 2015-11-02 2:37 PM probably a good choice....
Seriously?
Rather rude. |
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Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | FOAMed - 2015-11-02 2:15 PM no....not mixed up at all......just farmers farmin for insurance....which over the last decade has been quite lucrative....but was lucrative long before that..... also very lucrative for the insurance side.....at the taxpayers expense of course
I've heard of that, but have a hard time believing it's as common as you imply. We can't hardly get paid when we have a legit claim and have had to go to to court over it before. |
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| Troll.... Look up the same in the search. Trolling many posts.
Someone needs more work - wish I had enough hours in the day to troll the Internet! |
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| Crop insurance, serves the American public as well. One of the few programs that we all benefit from. A cheap, and almost never ending supply of food keeps us in good shape, and ahead of the competition. The competition used to be communism btw. It has been abused. There is no doubt about it. It has also been one sided. Definitely slanted towards grain. It kinda left out the meat industry. Also, when the program was instuted a big farmer had a 35 horse power tractor. Now a big farmer has 35 tractors. The lenders will have to get tight on financing. A guy going to have to be pretty solid to get an operating loan without federal crop insurance backing his note on field crop. Time will tell. Be interesting to see how it all turns out.
I won't lie, I have sucked on the government tit in my farming career. I raise mostly beef cattle. Never was many programs to benefit me. Crp is probably your biggest drain on the system. Plenty of land laying fallow that should have never been farmed anyway. |
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| Bigfoot - 2015-11-02 6:19 PM
Crop insurance, serves the American public as well. One of the few programs that we all benefit from. A cheap, and almost never ending supply of food keeps us in good shape, and ahead of the competition. The competition used to be communism btw. It has been abused. There is no doubt about it. It has also been one sided. Definitely slanted towards grain. It kinda left out the meat industry. Also, when the program was instuted a big farmer had a 35 horse power tractor. Now a big farmer has 35 tractors. The lenders will have to get tight on financing. A guy going to have to be pretty solid to get an operating loan without federal crop insurance backing his note on field crop. Time will tell. Be interesting to see how it all turns out.
I won't lie, I have sucked on the government tit in my farming career. I raise mostly beef cattle. Never was many programs to benefit me. Crp is probably your biggest drain on the system. Plenty of land laying fallow that should have never been farmed anyway.
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