Bigfoot":12j7ewm7 said:No offense taken on the tobacco settlement issue. I just wanted people to understand its not the handout that it appears to be. I also hate to see people get it that never handled a plant in their life.
Milking the crop insurance program is bad as well. Collecting on a loss is perfectly fine.
Loan deficiency payments are a whole different story. No other industry that I know of has a handout for you when you come up short.
The CRP program probably serves a good purpose. Again many people drawing it that don't really farm.
When your on that environmental watch group site realize that many people are smart enough to take their payments 10 different ways.
I have gotten some of the phase 2 money. Like you said it has affected land values in our area.
Lots of land in our area went into CREP, we could have put the whole farm in for about $180 a acre per year for 15 years. We decided against it.