Meanwhile in the states

[bucket]

THERE ALSO WOULD BE PAYMENTS OF $20 AN ACRE FOR MANY ROW CROPS FROM CORN, SOYBEANS, AND WHEAT TO HEMP AND SAFFLOWER, WITH A PRICE TAG OF $4.5 BILLION.


Just $25cdn an acre to a farmer in the states...sort of like an irrigation farmer around Riverhurst Outlook or Lucky Lake ....

[chuckChuck]

what is the $25 per acre for?

[bucket]

Who knows just another payment to the US farmer....and our bunch of phucktard politicians argue about a carbon tax and agristability...both sides are ignoring farmers.

Lianne Rood can only talk about TFWs and then off to her next dress fitting.

[TOM4CWB]

what is the $25 per acre for?

Chuckchuck,

Covid-19, Agriculture does Carbon capture, increase in fuel costs because of restriction on use, higher cost of FF.

Cheers

[chuckChuck]

Nobody can tell us what the US $25 /acre payment is for? But you think you should get a taxpayer subsidy for what reason? Just because farming is hard?

I thought that most of you guys don't believe in subsidies? Grain prices are high and optimism in ag is high, but on Agrisilly times are tough and you want blanket handouts to every grain farm whether they need it or not?

What we need is a good safety net in crop insurance and income protection. We just received some widely supported improvements to Agristability with potentially more to come.

But you still want a blanket handout with what justification?

[chuckChuck]

Because I don't believe farmers, myself included, should get a blanket per acreage subsidy for no reason?

What is the subsidy for? Make your case. We are listening.

[bucket]

Irrigators in the Riverhurst Outlook Lucky Lake are receiving 40 bucks an acre for 5 years and no one knows why after they were given the assets for nothing...they are justifying the 4 billion dollar project on profitability when it hasn't happened with the existing districts in 40 years.

So I guess as a dryland farmer that helps the irrigators through taxes I would like an acreage payment as well.

[chuckChuck]

Irrigators in the Riverhurst Outlook Lucky Lake are receiving 40 bucks an acre for 5 years and no one knows why after they were given the assets for nothing...they are justifying the 4 billion dollar project on profitability when it hasn't happened with the existing districts in 40 years.

So I guess as a dryland farmer that helps the irrigators through taxes I would like an acreage payment as well.

I am with you on not subsidizing irrigation farmers. But what is the reason to support blanket subsidies?

[bucket]

Your simple mind wouldn’t get it even if I spent the day trying to explain.
Is the US justifying why they support the farmer, simple enough?

They support the farmer because it is the quickest and simplest way to move the money to the economy....


Canada has had the infrastructure bank and how many projects are being done to date...Better yet how many trees has the government planted????

If you gave the trees or the program to farmers or ranchers or the forest industry it probably would have been done already.

[chuckChuck]

With blanket subsidies for no reason, a large percentage end up going to those who don't need it.

That drives up rents, land prices, input prices and makes it harder for young people with no equity to succeed in farming.

If you want to stimulate the economy, don't give tax breaks and subsidies to people who don't need it.

Give more support to people who need to improve their lives, get better educations and better jobs. That will stimulate the economy more efficiently.