Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

Only In America...


From an article, “Spoilin’ The Broth”, by Bill Cook, in the Rockdale (Texas) Reporter dated February 11, 2016 on page 5A. A letter to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from one Jimmy Henry of Broken Arrow , OK

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Dear Sir:

My friends, Wayne and Janelle over at Wichita Falls , received a check the other day for $1,000 from the government for not raising hogs. So, I want to go into the not raising hogs business.

I need to know your opinion on what the best breed of hogs not to raise? I want to be sure that I approach this venture in keeping with all government guidelines. I would prefer not to raise Razorbacks, but if that is not a good breed to not raise, then I can just as easily not raise Yorkshire’s or Durocs.

As I see it, the hardest part of this program will be keeping an accurate inventory of how many hogs I am not raising. My friend Wayne is excited about the future of this business. He has been raising hogs for 20 years and the most he ever made was $422 in 1988, until this year when he got your check for $1000 for not raising hogs.

If I get $1,000 for not raising 50 hogs, will I get $2,000 for not raising 100? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to about 4,000 which will give me $80,000 income the first year. Then I can afford an airplane.

Another thing, these hogs I’m not raising will eat 100,000 bushels of corn. I understand that you also pay farmers for not raising corn and wheat. Will I qualify for payments for not raising wheat and corn not to feed the 4,000 hogs I am not going to raise?

I want to get started not feeding as soon as possible as this seems to be a good time a year to not to raise hogs and grain. I’m also considering the not-milking-cows business so please send me any information you might have on that.

I assume that the government will consider me to be unemployed from all this non-production, so I plan to file for unemployment and food stamps.


Jimmy Henry

Henry Farms

Broken Arrow, OK

Loki Loc: Georgia

Our tax dollars at work.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

The agriculture dept does this in all phases of farming and livestock. I have a friend in Loraine Tx, he has several plots of land ranging from 300 acres to 700, he raises cotton on the 700, and alphalpha on the others. The agriculture dept has paid him for his crop and ordered him to destroy it on several occasions over the 20 yrs i have known him.......to control pricing in the market, they will spray the cotton with acid and till it under, the same with the alphalpha, he must cut it and let it lay to rot....some yrs they pay him to grow a certain crop he would normally not mess with on his smaller plots...all about price control and not flooding the market on boon yrs....and yes this is your tax dollars at work, and it is done quite often across the nation.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Ask your Congressman. Most, if not all, of them are owners or part owners in farms that the Gov. pays to not farm, so they have all the particulars on the not farming business. They also know who to contact and the forms to file, to register as a non farmer and get your property registered as a non farm, as well as how to file for your pay to not farm.

After all, not farming is far more lucrative than farming, which is why many lawmakers do not farm in their spare time and own non farms to not farm on. The list of stock to not raise and the crops to not farm, is extensive, so I'm sure you'll find the right mix of non stock to not raise on your non farm, to get paid for not farming.

Hint: not farming the same thing your lawmakers do not farm, assures that the non farming business in that particular not stock or not crop area, remains viable, because, what lawmaker worth their salt, would screw up their own non farming payday?

badbobby Loc: texas

very good Don
oldie
but well worth reading again
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