FARMERS BEING PART OF HISTORY..... - The Firearms Forum

rooter · 10-05-2012, 05:09 AM

Of course, I didn't remember this dated reminder...Being reminded of it from the NEW YORK TIMES this morning, decided to share it with you fellow Americans...I suppose that may have been the beginning of farm subsidies that we all know about today ....farmers being paid for not planting all the crop producing land to keep the price of marketable grains up to a fair amount...I remember the below listed date because it was received and scorned badly there in Iowa where I was going to school.. The schools lunch program already had no fish menus on Friday for the Catholics...Those old farmers and merchants chanted "TOO DAMN MUCH GOVERNMENT IN OUR LIVES"! Current corn and grain prices are in the news...not only caused by the severe droughts thruout the grain belt but diverting corn to be used as an ethynol fuel....And your favorite breakfast is corn flakes...? Goldilocks had 'porridge'...what the hell is porridge????Chief

On October 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe.

berto64 · 10-05-2012, 11:03 PM

How odd, Under Eisenhower there was the Soil Bank Act. There were so many commodity surpluses that farmers were actually paid NOT to farm. So there was a lot of empty farms in some areas. After the dust bowl a few years earlier by the 50's our farmers were growing too much!

10-05-2012, 05:09 AM	#1
rooter VMBB Senior Chief Of Staff Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Marty Robbins old hometown, Glendale Arizona--a suburb of Phoenix. Contributor Posts: 9,274	FARMERS BEING PART OF HISTORY..... Of course, I didn't remember this dated reminder...Being reminded of it from the NEW YORK TIMES this morning, decided to share it with you fellow Americans...I suppose that may have been the beginning of farm subsidies that we all know about today ....farmers being paid for not planting all the crop producing land to keep the price of marketable grains up to a fair amount...I remember the below listed date because it was received and scorned badly there in Iowa where I was going to school.. The schools lunch program already had no fish menus on Friday for the Catholics...Those old farmers and merchants chanted "TOO DAMN MUCH GOVERNMENT IN OUR LIVES"! Current corn and grain prices are in the news...not only caused by the severe droughts thruout the grain belt but diverting corn to be used as an ethynol fuel....And your favorite breakfast is corn flakes...? Goldilocks had 'porridge'...what the hell is porridge????Chief On October 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe. __________________ -->

10-05-2012, 11:03 PM	#2
berto64 VMBB Admin Staff Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Owyhee County, Idaho Contributor Posts: 7,388	Re: FARMERS BEING PART OF HISTORY..... How odd, Under Eisenhower there was the Soil Bank Act. There were so many commodity surpluses that farmers were actually paid NOT to farm. So there was a lot of empty farms in some areas. After the dust bowl a few years earlier by the 50's our farmers were growing too much! __________________ Be who you are & say what you will, Those that matter won't mind and those that mind don't matter. I'm a bitter clinger, One Nation Under God.