Supreme Court to hear California raisin growers' case

[JoeyT]

4. I agree there's a purpose behind them,

and that it's a good idea. I'm just not keen on taking their crops without paying them a fair rate for them. Assuming that's what's happening, of course. I'm not sure how biased the article may have been on that point, and I've never grown anything that was subject to these kind of programs. If they're getting a fair rate for them, then I'm behind the programs 100%.

It isn't really going to reduce depletion, erosion, etc if they're still growing them. I'm not sure how you could actually stop that...perhaps by exempting or partially exempting people that planted non-harvestable nitrogen fixers between the rows (I'm not sure what you call a row of grapes), but that would still leave the chance of market instability.