Posted on 05/25/2013 12:12:20 PM PDT by IbJensen
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I remember when the evil Roosevelt’s regime bought up enormous supplies of potatoes and had them doused with kerosene and burned. This was in order to keep the price of potatoes up.
He, being a fan of Joseph Stalin, probably thought this more humane than starving the entire state of Idaho to death.
This is the same government, maintaining the same socialist programs...even creating scores more.
A hairdresser’s licensing requires learning some sanitary things you want mandated.
Well, yes they do actually pay people to NOT grow crops on otherwise good farmland. The idea is to keep an appropriate cover crop on the land to keep it ready to put back into production with relatively little effort and to keep the good soil in place during drought conditions.
My grandparents put their land into the program when they retired. Initially, they had just let the land go fallow for a while, so it had reverted back to normal native grass. Of course, this wasn’t good enough for the USDA. They had to rip out all the native grass and replace it with a special designated grass that was imported from Africa.
Last year, someone at the USDA decided that the prairie chickens didn’t like the imported grass, so if we want to keep the land in the system, we have to remove all the (USDA mandated) grass and put in native grass.
In the middle of the biggest drought that has come along in forever. So the land (that was covered with decent grass) now has $5,000 in native grass seed dying under bare ground because it hasn’t rained enough.
Go fig.
That’s a shame; I wish them luck (and rain).
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