I think any person receiving a crop subsidie should sign away an equal amount of development roghts. I am tired as a tax payer supporting farmers only to have them sell for development. We are using good tax payer monies to support closet developers instead of a farmers.
If farm land like industrial land is only the land it is used for, taxed for, supported by communiy tax gifts and direct cash benefits it would still be affordable. It just does not make sense to me to have a society put forth huge amounts of time and monies to insure a farmer survives until retirement then lets him in many cases convert. In most other countries many farmers drive from the town to work on the farm. The resouce is just to valable to destroy with new housing. I think if we want to preserve farming we need to preserve the resouce first. If the resouce is preserved the farmer being the resoucful business man he is will farm it profitably. JOHN Belisle Bellewood acres -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arthur Harvey Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 5:20 AM To: Apple-Crop Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: U. S. Farm Bill I think we would all (except a few big guys) be better off if all federal subsidies were phased out, and the money saved used for reducing the national debt. Federal market interventions distort the demand side of economics, and also victimize poorer farmers in other parts of the world. --- lee elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you want to see in the new Farm Bill? The only $$ my small > orchard gets is the$$$ from the WIC & Senior Farmers Market coupons, > would like to see that expanded, growing fruit on land where program crops are grown, not so sure. What do you think? > > > Lee Elliott, Winchester, Il. > > > --------------------------------- > Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with theYahoo! > Search weather shortcut. On another topic, the federal law governing organic foods was recently amended by lobbyists hired by some manufacturers. This will allow synthetic ingredients to be added to organic-labeled foods. If this is important to you, please visit my website, www.RestoreOrganicLaw.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'Apple-Crop' LISTSERV is sponsored by the Virtual Orchard <http://www.virtualorchard.net> and managed by Win Cowgill and Jon Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Apple-Crop is not moderated. Therefore, the statements do not represent "official" opinions and the Virtual Orchard takes no responsibility for the content. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'Apple-Crop' LISTSERV is sponsored by the Virtual Orchard <http://www.virtualorchard.net> and managed by Win Cowgill and Jon Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Apple-Crop is not moderated. Therefore, the statements do not represent "official" opinions and the Virtual Orchard takes no responsibility for the content.
