U.S. says farmers could get cash aid by October but will not be made whole

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 9:29pm

I live in Nebraska. This is going to go over like the proverbial lead fart.

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U.S. says farmers could get cash aid by October but will not be made whole

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - U.S. farmers could receive cash payments from a planned $12 billion aid package as soon as late September, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told Reuters on Saturday, warning that the program will not make tariff-hit farmers whole.

Perdue said in an interview on the sidelines of the G20 meeting of agriculture ministers in Buenos Aires that the plan would include between $7 billion and $8 billion in direct cash relief.

U.S. growers are expected to take an $11 billion hit due to retaliatory tariffs after Washington placed duties on Chinese goods.

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The aid plan, a response to retaliatory trade measures on U.S. farm exports, is intended only for the current crop cycle, he said. “It’s for the 2018 crop. We do not expect to do this over a period of time,” Perdue said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-argentina-usa/u-s-says-farmers-co...

This is a Pro-Trump state, but the small farmers cannot afford this. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out.

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He could take the money from his Space Balls Project

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Submitted by dkmich on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 7:13am

Saving the farmers with good ol' socialism....

Trump is such a horse's ass.

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Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 11:11am

farmers have been on welfare since the

@dkmich
end of the great depression.

that they fail to understand this is one of the most disheartening facts of american politics.

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Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 2:07pm

Yep.

@UntimelyRippd @UntimelyRippd

USDA subsidy information for Kaliff Farms

Kaliff Farms received payments totaling $9,905,473 from 1995 through 2016

https://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A06381475

Subtotal, Farming Subsidies in Nebraska, 1995-2016

Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 138,681

Recipients of Subtotal, Farming Subsidies from farms in Nebraska totaled $12,597,000,000 in from 1995-2016.

Subtotal, Farming Subsidies in Nebraska, 1995-2016

Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 138,681

Recipients of Subtotal, Farming Subsidies from farms in Nebraska totaled $12,597,000,000 in from 1995-2016.

https://farm.ewg.org/top_recips.php?fips=31000&progcode=totalfarm&region...

The big corporate farms are making a killing off subsidies.

Overhauling the Farm Bill: The Real Beneficiaries of Subsidies

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Not surprisingly, those elite, commercial mega-farms -- those earning over $250,000 per year that control vast acreages -- haven't felt economically squeezed. They have a manufacturing model, with an emphasis on long-lasting commodity crops like corn, cotton, rice, wheat, soybeans, and other animal feed grains -- not fruits and vegetables that humans actually eat. Human labor is replaced with gas-powered machinery, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides. Those supplies and equipment are expensive, but get economical when spread over a maximum number of acres or animals. According to Wise's analysis of USDA data, these huge farms were responsible for 44 percent of commodity crop production and received 32 percent of commodity payments in 2003. As Wise explains, "The concentration of farm payments is caused primarily by the concentration of land and production."

It's one thing to support a family farmer. It's quite another to subsidize the expansion of a mega-farm operation that puts family farmers out of business.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/overhauling-the-farm-...

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Submitted by Citizen Of Earth on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 7:19am

Yay. Tax Payers on the hook for Trump Tariff Brainfarts

Trump makes it sound like he's the Savior of the farmers. But the fact is that his Tariffs are blowing up in his and and our faces. Mr Art Of The Bankruptcy is fucking us again.

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