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[Farmer-Rick]

14. What farm support are you talking about?

Most of the FDR farm price supports have been removed and replaced with subsidies for rich farmers, not average farmers.

Price supports have been removed and replace with subsidies that give the filthy rich a priority.

Just an example: I have 35 head of sheep on a small farm in the mountains of East TN. But I don't qualify for subsidies to build a hay barn because I don't have enough sheep. I've been raising sheep here for 20 years but I don't qualify.

Yet the new farmer down the road who bought out 5 farms and placed 300 heads of sheep on the land (to starve and has a death rate of about 50% because he won't deworm them or feed them during winter) qualifies in 8 months.

This is how many farm subsidies run. It doesn't matter how badly you raise sheep or how cruelly you treat them, if you got a lot of money to throw at it, you get the subsidies.

There are other horrific stories I could tell you but now and then a few real farmers are able to jump through the hoops to get the subsidies but it is rare.