The handout to farmers we expected...

[MitchLL]

Secretary of Ag, Rollins, is scheduled to arrive in this State to announce what everyone expected
The "Market Disruption Payment" will be this administration's gift to our welfare queens...the American farmer.

Shocked.
Shocked, I tell you.

 

[The Tradition]

An army travels on its stomach. Can't let the farmers go out of business.

 

[ISUBryce]

An army travels on its stomach. Can't let the farmers go out of business.

I don’t think anybody actually wants that to happen.

We just get tired of these guys who bought into Trump’s schtick always there with their hands out. The cuts always need to come… until it’s them and then they are Tiny Tim.

 

[MitchLL]

Supposedly, the payments will be made when the WH determines farmers have been adversely affected by tariff policy.

If I buy those six chickens to produce my own eggs, does that mean I'm a farmer?
Or do I need to own a $75k truck and vacation in AZ for the winter months to be considered a farmer?

 

[The Tradition]

Supposedly, the payments will be made when the WH determines farmers have been adversely affected by tariff policy.

If I buy those six chickens to produce my own eggs, does that mean I'm a farmer?
Or do I need to own a $75k truck and vacation in AZ for the winter months to be considered a farmer?

Ask your County Ag Agent.

 

[Chishawk1425]

MAGA is Taliban
Taliban is MAGA

These ****ers are absolute lunatics

 

[MitchLL]

Ask your County Ag Agent.

President Musk fired them all!😁

 

[The Tradition]

President Musk fired them all!😁

There's an old joke about this.

A county agricultural agent was sitting at his desk, sobbing uncontrollably.

Coworkers rushed to console the poor man, asking him what was wrong?

Getting his emotions under control enough to speak, he replied, "My farmer died!"

 

[Mayland]

Supposedly, the payments will be made when the WH determines farmers have been adversely affected by tariff policy.

If I buy those six chickens to produce my own eggs, does that mean I'm a farmer?
Or do I need to own a $75k truck and vacation in AZ for the winter months to be considered a farmer?

I know you’re not serious, but I think you need to make $5000/year in gross receipts from farming operations to qualify as a farmer in the eyes of the IRS.

 

[win1forthe]

Pretty soon all of the farms will be owned by the Chinese and Russians, so might as well get another handout or two until our friends from Beijing take over.

 

[MitchLL]

One more qualification to be a farmer...You need to buy a couple Polaris ATVs, say you purchased them to spray fence lines so you can "write them off" as farm equipment, then take them to Havasu to ride the sand dunes every winter.

 

[stanzithemanzi12]

Supposedly, the payments will be made when the WH determines farmers have been adversely affected by tariff policy.

If I buy those six chickens to produce my own eggs, does that mean I'm a farmer?
Or do I need to own a $75k truck and vacation in AZ for the winter months to be considered a farmer?

You're not short on jealousy, that's for sure.

 

[The Tradition]

You're not short on jealousy, that's for sure.

Pretty bold trolling farmers on an Iowa board, too.

 

[MitchLL]

Pretty bold trolling farmers on an Iowa board, too.

If you asked one, I bet most farmers will admit they're the largest recipient of govt $$$..

Off the record, of course.

 

[Hawked]

One more qualification to be a farmer...You need to buy a couple Polaris ATVs, say you purchased them to spray fence lines so you can "write them off" as farm equipment, then take them to Havasu to ride the sand dunes every winter.

Or not. My dad is a farmer and owns zero of the things mentioned in your 2 posts.

 

[CaboKP]

Most farmers have gone through very difficult times and do not represent who OP is describing regarding trucks and vacations.
I recently asked my dad about his thoughts on me taking over the farm. He pretty much said I would be crazy to jump in at this time.
Crop inputs are high and price per bushel sales are low. The engineering of seed corn providers has allowed crop yields to increase enough to stay afloat.
The big guys are doing fine, just like in every business.

 

[stanzithemanzi12]

If you asked one, I bet most farmers will admit they're the largest recipient of govt $$$..

Off the record, of course.

I bet the ROI of those govt $$$ to farmers, and the trickle down into the various ag industries, trumps almost all other forms of welfare in this country too.

 

[The Tradition]

I bet the ROI of those govt $$$ to farmers, and the trickle down into the various ag industries, trumps almost all other forms of welfare in this country too.

They're not spending it on lottery tickets and Black and Milds, that's for sure.

 

[Mayland]

Most farmers have gone through very difficult times and do not represent who OP is describing regarding trucks and vacations.
I recently asked my dad about his thoughts on me taking over the farm. He pretty much said I would be crazy to jump in at this time.
Crop inputs are high and price per bushel sales are low. The engineering of seed corn providers has allowed crop yields to increase enough to stay afloat.
The big guys are doing fine, just like in every business.

Barriers to entry make it very difficult for somebody to start out. Once you have an asset base built it’s also very hard to fail at it.

 

[MitchLL]

I bet the ROI of those govt $$$ to farmers, and the trickle down into the various ag industries, trumps almost all other forms of welfare in this country too.

Link?

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

Pain for thee, not for me.

-The maga voting farmer

 

[The Tradition]

Pain for thee, not for me.

-The maga voting farmer

Then become a farmer.

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

My own pride wouldn't allow me to accept welfare while voting against it for others.

 

[The Tradition]

My own pride wouldn't allow me to accept welfare while voting against it for others.

Give a farmer money, the country gets a harvest next year.

Give a homeless guy money, the country still has a homeless guy next year.

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

Someone better will take their place if they can't cut it on their own. That's the capitalism you all love.

 

[The Tradition]

Someone better will take their place if they can't cut it on their own. That's the capitalism you all love.

You don't get it. Farmers actually produce something that people want.

Unlike say.... unions for example.

 

[stanzithemanzi12]

Link?

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

You don't get it. Farmers actually produce something that people want.

Unlike say.... unions for example.

You don't seem to get it.

 

[The Tradition]

You don't seem to get it.

I know you are but what am I?

 

[uihawk82]

Secretary of Ag, Rollins, is scheduled to arrive in this State to announce what everyone expected
The "Market Disruption Payment" will be this administration's gift to our welfare queens...the American farmer.

Shocked.
Shocked, I tell you.

Socialize Farming, not capitalism. Crop fails we will pay you. Set Aside we will pay you. Prop up crop prices, price supports, we will support you. support, support , support

You are a hungry kid, we will cut your support etc etc . you cant afford healthcare we will cut your support, the Repub mantra

 

[fredjr82]

You don't seem to get it.

Don't give @The Tradition what he wants. Obviously he's not getting attention somewhere else so he's being a dick here.

BAU

 

[The Tradition]

Socialize Farming, not capitalism. Crop fails we will pay you. Set Aside we will pay you. Prop up crop prices, price supports, we will support you. support, support , support

You are a hungry kid, we will cut your support etc etc . you cant afford healthcare we will cut your support, the Repub mantra

How are we going to feed the hungry kid without farmers?

 

[MitchLL]

Socialize Farming, not capitalism. Crop fails we will pay you. Set Aside we will pay you. Prop up crop prices, price supports, we will support you. support, support , support

You are a hungry kid, we will cut your support etc etc . you cant afford healthcare we will cut your support, the Repub mantra

^^^^Don't you just love their hypocrisy?

But fvck financial aid and student loans!

 

[fredjr82]

How are we going to feed the hungry kid without farmers?

Reynolds will just turn down the funding to feed them. The farmers have F'd with fire for too long.

 

[MitchLL]

How are we going to feed the hungry kid without farmers?

No one says farmers aren't needed.
What we're saying is they don't continually need to be subsidized.
Do you understand the difference?

 

[The Tradition]

No one says farmers aren't needed.
What we're saying is they don't continually need to be subsidized.

I think a robust food supply is sort of like a big national security thing.

 

[MitchLL]

I think a robust food supply is sort of like a big national security thing.

So why slap a tariff on Canadian dairy products?

 

[3boysmom]

I know you’re not serious, but I think you need to make $5000/year in gross receipts from farming operations to qualify as a farmer in the eyes of the IRS.

So sell a couple dozen of those eggs and you’re golden

 

[The Tradition]

So why slap a tariff on Canadian dairy products?

Because they're doing it to us?

 

[MitchLL]

Because they're doing it to us?

Read the details of that agreement.
Those tariffs only kick in AFTER the Trump negotiated deal exceeds certain levels of dairy imports.

Never have Canadian tariifs been enacted because those imports haven't exceeded the agreement.

You really are out of your league on this one.