Farm Policy

"To fund the House bill, Peterson slashed $4.8 billion from Harkin's personal priority, the Conservation Security Program, which rewards farmers for improved environmental practices. As a result, no farmer would be allowed to sign up for the program until 2012. So Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, will have to find money somewhere to fund the program or else undo the Peterson-crafted package that is popular with farm groups."

"Peterson spelled out the philosophy that guided his development of this bill when he said, “It’s about being able to keep independent family farmers in business. When a guy comes in to get a loan for his crop, he has to be able to show the banker that if everything goes to hell, he can pay his loan back.”

Ag Committee Chair Collin Peterson is the person responsible for making a total mess of the department of agriculture. The bill of goods that he has sold amerika is more of the corporate mishmash of chemical fertilizers and major player pay-offs that destroys all incentive for small farms to actually pay attention to the land management of the ground they occupy. Let's take one of the few remaining on the ground programs that actually get people equipment and supplies and cut it off so that banks can extract their residues from the rotting carcass of amerikan farmers.

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THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER
"Monitoring corporate agribusiness from a public interest perspective"

August 1, 2007 Issue #517

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