Local "Poor Farmer" Featured in Washington Post Video

[wildcats]

I don't know why they didn't just load pallets of cash on a plane and drop on the fields.

If the plane has enough fuel to head my way,i could use a pallet of cash myself........

 

[deersniper]

I don't know why they didn't just load pallets of cash on a plane and drop on the fields.

You mean apartment buildings. Cause that's where most of those "farmers " live

 

[pmclaine]

Woe be to the bank that enforces any sort of fiscal responsibility when dealing with a protected class.

 

[myronman3]

“aint no money in farming...” which is the refrain of every farmer i know.

the old timers worked their asses off...i come from a farming family. and i worked on farms growing up.

these folks i see these days....it’s a government racket. if they were spending their own money, they’d be broke inside a year. there simply aint no other explaination for how they do it.....they are getting cash from the government in some form of write off or subsidy. All the time....running around and bitchin’....”there aint no money in farming...”

 

[Rthur]

“aint no money in farming...” which is the refrain of every farmer i know.

the old timers worked their asses off...i come from a farming family. and i worked on farms growing up.

these folks i see these days....it’s a government racket. if they were spending their own money, they’d be broke inside a year. there simply aint no other explaination for how they do it.....they are getting cash from the government in some form of write off or subsidy. All the time....running around and bitchin’....”there aint no money in farming...”

Their statement is partially true.
The money is in farm program graft and crop insurance.

R

 

[myronman3]

i suppose it is just like anything else....a certain percentage of the population is always going to game the system.

 

[deersniper]

i suppose it is just like anything else....a certain percentage of the population is always going to game the system.

Some of those people getting rich are expert managers of people/land/marketing/equipment/etc and are able to buffalo landowners into cheap rent deals. Not every farmer making money is making it off .gov

And not everything is how it seems. Lots and lots of bankruptcy sales these days. Shiny paint don't mean it's paid for.

 

[krw]

What John Q Public gets out of all this is cheaper food. Get the Gov out of farming completely, My integrator is going to pay me substansially more to raise chickens. This is because the Gov wont be backing garunteed 95% loans on Poultry houses. My Cattle will increase in price greatly. This is because the “Hobby” farmers will not be getting there tax breaks and they wont have 25k worth cattle and 200k worth equip. If the IRS would enforce intent to make profit on Farmers it would help greatly. Later on JBS and Ethanol

 

[Hobo Hilton]

I've known this guy for years. Everyone in my area knows him, and we all know his game.

He was on the short list to be Obama's Ag Secretary in his first term.
He's married to a Native American woman, so the cookie jar runs deep.

I've been on this farm many many times. He raises some grain and a few head of cattle. It's generally run down and very poorly tended. He had a brooder operation for one of the large poultry companies years ago, but they shut him down due to his lack of attention to the operation.
He's actually a nice and friendly guy locally, but the politics and the gaming of the system are always prevalent.

Nearby there's another farm. Rich land that borders a primary river and lake system, making it very valuable not only as farmland, but as property for development.
That farm recently was about to go on the auction block, when out of the blue, this fellow comes in and lays down an offer.
I did some work a few weeks ago for one of the estate holders who was involved in the sale. They are all bewildered as to how he got the money or where it came from, but nonetheless thankful that an asking price offer was made.
If I recall, it was something like $2.3 million, for 560 acres.

So it begs the question - How does the poor farmer, who can't afford a few bushels of cover crop seed, depicted in this hit piece by the Washington Post afford to buy another farm worth millions?

The answer of course is bullshit, and lots of it.
There's no question in my mind that tax dollars are funding the venture.

Seems your suspicion is coming true.

Minority farmer loan forgiveness program to allocate $4B in payments as part of American Rescue Plan​

Minority farmer loan forgiveness program to allocate $4B in payments as part of American Rescue Plan

The Department of Agriculture has said it will be rolling out loan forgiveness payments aimed at minority farmers.

www.oann.com

 

[pmclaine]

Thats in addition to this.....

Pigford payouts to black farmers reach $2.3 B. Will there be more?

May 2012 was the deadline for black farmers to submit claims charging USDA with discrimination under the terms of the Pigford I and II class action lawsuits dating from 1997. But that has not stopped speculation that additional payments could and should be made.

www.agri-pulse.com

 

[diggler1833]

Oh man, I'm just a white boy, but my wife and her family are all card carrying Choctaws. Anytime a "free money to minorities" program is unveiled they get pissed about it because the effects of government handouts for doing nothing is pretty apparent in this neck of the woods.

It is obvious that this is an attempt to purchase votes at the cost of both removing and refusing money to those who didn't vote for this administration anyway...so no loss to them.

If this actually happens; maybe I can finagle a way to qualify for it and donate the money to competing political campaigns (if legal).