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JDPriestly

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15. This program was started because of the huge numbers of bankrupt

Reply to askeptic (Reply #11)

Sun Nov 25, 2012, 05:52 AM

Nov 2012

farmers in the 1930s. Farmers could organize and agree on quotas for themselves, but it is unlikely they will ever do that.

You get booms and busts in agriculture and people go hungry. Grapes? Not a staple in most families. Maybe we should just let them go boom and bust and see what they learn from it.

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Supreme Court to hear California raisin growers' case [View all] rachel1 Nov 2012 OP

Actually I agree with them. JoeyT Nov 2012 #1

My mother remembers the time in the 1930s when the farmers JDPriestly Nov 2012 #3

I agree there's a purpose behind them, JoeyT Nov 2012 #4

My grandfather lived through the dust storms. JDPriestly Nov 2012 #16

It's easy to promote crop rotation for annual crops XemaSab Nov 2012 #7

True. But that is the exception. JDPriestly Nov 2012 #14

In California, they had an alternative to dumping the crops...they COULD have fed the starving. Ken Burch Nov 2012 #13

Unsure of the specifics here, so I'm on the fence. Yet many USDA / New Deal agricultural programs pinto Nov 2012 #2

"...federal marketing program that can take nearly half of their crop..." SoapBox Nov 2012 #5

The specific percentages are in the article. (nt) Posteritatis Nov 2012 #8

Are they opposing federal subsidies too? BainsBane Nov 2012 #6

The prosecution calls its first witness... rucky Nov 2012 #9

The Raisin Industry is a welfare queen. marble falls Nov 2012 #10

Pretty sure you have to sign up for the price support program - i.e. this is part of the trade-off askeptic Nov 2012 #11

This program was started because of the huge numbers of bankrupt JDPriestly Nov 2012 #15

The global food waste scandal..... DeSwiss Nov 2012 #12