I take ZERO direct farm payments. I do acreage reports for the yields information. I DO NOT even take the cost share for conservation projects. I do not want UNCLE SAM owning me. The guys that have taken conservation project money now have to have complete farm manure management plans even if they are under the required EPA head number. Not for me. I don't pollute but I don't want some yahoo in Washington telling me I can't put manure here or there because he does not like it.
I guess I do get indirect farm subsidies through my crop insurance rates. Even they are not much as I have only had two claims in thirty years against my crop insurance. Even then the one year the premium I paid was more than the claim. The other year was 1988. I did draw that year but if you add up the premium payment since then I have paid just about four times what I drew.
I will not even be close to a claim this year. Beans averaged 64 bushels per acre. The corn seems like it will average out at the 150-160 range.
I would like the US government out of it completely. If the land values fell some then we would adjust and get along. The government payments are not for the farmer. It is to keep the main food stuffs in abundant/cheap supply. Around here some of the big grain guys where getting big payments the last two years. We have had record prices but they where still drawing on some 2008 program. It is all just a racket. I say end it. I have made it without the payments so others should be able too. Maybe you would not be able to farm three counties of ground and not be diversified.
I have always had livestock, grain, and hay. Plus I worked in town and at my home shop. One of the things usually made up for a shortage if one of the others was not doing well. If more where still doing it this way we would have more farmers.
If you put all of your eggs in one basket then don't cry to me when you loose your butt.
Look up people you know in this link. See how much they have drawn on the US tax payers the last ten years. My name is not listed as I have drawn ZERO. If you did yours will be on the list.
Guy that owns the farm right next to me farms maybe 400 acres but knows how to milk the system. He has drawn over one million dollars the last ten years. He just kind of lazes around these days. He is just as bad or worse than a welfare deadbeat.
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