Find Out Who Is Getting Federal Farm Subsidies, And How Much
This weekend the Wisconsin State Journal editorial page tackled the continuing sham of federal farm subsidies. As currently constructed these subsidies are a joke. As the paper noted when you live on the shores of Lake Monona in a very sweet home it seems illogical that a farm subsidy would be landing in your mail box. That it can–and does–underscores what many have known for years.
There needs to be a major overhauling of this boondoggle that drains taxpayer dollars into the hands of those who know how to farm the government.
After all, you pay for it.
It is easy.
Click on the state you wish to know about (for instance here is Wisconsin), and then click the county within that state. Or you can check out a particular congressional district.
Then contact your member of Congress and encourage them to write a farm bill that does not contain more of this irrational farming of the government.
Nothing but a welfare check to the farmers
They are, indeed.
I think food stamps are paid with farm subsidies
Craig, you are misinformed. Ideal seeding rate for corn is somewhere around 28k to 32k per acre. Seed is sold in units of 80k kernals.
Farmers have not been paid not to grow for years. We do get subsudies but not in that way anynmore……..
I hate the fact that farmers are paid not to grow. Goes against nature and everything that makes common sense. The plant population for good-ground corn is 80,000 plants per acre and seeds are bagged as such. Funk Seed was the leading factor in the seeds per bag program, and it happened when I worked at Funk Seed in the ’70′s, then a $400,000,000 a year business based in Bloomington, Illinois..
Lets grow more then we need and trade the extra.
skip.