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<blockquote data-quote="Bigfoot" data-source="post: 997720" data-attributes="member: 17956"><p>The original bases were given out, but could be sold to other farmers and attached to their land and bases. Dark tobacco bases were especially valuable. I raised 15 to 16 acres of dark every year. I guess everybody feels entitled to something-----------I feel entitled to what I got. My earning potential, and the value of my land is forever lowered by the loss of the bases. I could have easily made more money than I have been "given" by continuing to raise even half of my 16 acre base. </p><p></p><p>I take exception to people that get phase II money that never raised tobacco. Ive got useless barns and rusting equipment that will never hit the field again. All purchased or built in good faith that the base system was there to protect me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigfoot, post: 997720, member: 17956"] The original bases were given out, but could be sold to other farmers and attached to their land and bases. Dark tobacco bases were especially valuable. I raised 15 to 16 acres of dark every year. I guess everybody feels entitled to something-----------I feel entitled to what I got. My earning potential, and the value of my land is forever lowered by the loss of the bases. I could have easily made more money than I have been "given" by continuing to raise even half of my 16 acre base. I take exception to people that get phase II money that never raised tobacco. Ive got useless barns and rusting equipment that will never hit the field again. All purchased or built in good faith that the base system was there to protect me. [/QUOTE]
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