any other farmers in here?

applepoop1984

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whats teh poitn of grammar anyways? u understand what im writing thast what typed fotn is good for right? i aced the verbal on my sat im just lazy . the only exception to that rule is when people use a aword that sounds the same but means something different based on spelling( herd, heard, u get the picture i hope) its a homophone or homograph or somethign fo that nature im sure. and lastly unless u cant tell im creating typos , not misspellings. so lets just assume the peopel with the dyslexic typign skills are nto in fact illiterate, merely dyslexic(or sexlexic in my case)
 

420God

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i used to farm the sea. it's been years since i've been out there. it's a whole different world out there. i've seen wild killer whales playing. there's not really much left to farm out there anymore, other then a few crabs.

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That's pretty cool fdd. Being out on a boat fishing is one of the only things I find more peaceful than farming.

I can't even imagine being out on the ocean, I've never even been to the coast. You're a lucky man.
 

420God

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The increase of domestic food prices is the fault of the ever expanding money supply provided by the private bank known as the Federal Reserve. It has nothing to do with farmers, they HAVE to raise prices when the prices of everything else they use also goes up. Have any idea how much Diesel fuel a farm uses in a year? Any idea at all?
These corn prices are fucking ridiculous. Up 50% from last year. Stupid ethanol bullshit.
 

420God

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What do you grow again? It may contribute to the different growing suitabilities of your manure if you feed some of it to your livestock. ;)
My cattle are range/hay fed and grained during the winter.

I don't care for the price of corn because I use corn to heat my house.
 

lowrider2000

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ive got about 5 cubic feet of farm in my dresser 1 head of cat and 1 head of G.F......... i grow mostlt marijuana and bogavilias lol 1st gen
 

GodSlave

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Did some digging on the FSA site (formerly the ASCS), and for loans to new farmers, you must have 3 years experience in the business operation of a farm. Also, they only loan up to 45% of the value of the farm you are wanting to purchase. The rest you have to get in private financing. They do, however, offer a 95% guarantee to the private lender. Also, you need 5% down payment. The interest is really good though, 4% below the direct FO (farm ownership) rate, but not lower than 1.5 percent.
So, that's kinda depressing... I thought about going in with my parents to get a loan, who still have 40 acres but don't do much farming anymore, but one of the rules is you can't have operated a farm for more than 10 years, which disqualifies them. :(
Bummer, I was stoked when I heard about the grant/loan programs, because as I said, I have wanted to do this for a long time...
I did some google searching and lots of people offer internships, but they are for college students, and I am not in a position to go back to school to get an Ag degree.
GS:leaf:
 

The Cryptkeeper

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What sites to you go to? Local, State, Federal, and Private entities all give grants for farming. The Feds give quite phenomenal loans and assist in private loan stupendously, as you said, they really work to get you low interest.
 

Winter Woman

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I spent all my childhood summers on my aunt's hog farmer. No indoor plumbing, too. Thought you farmers might find this interesting. Pisses you off doesn't it.


"In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997."

The case was entitled "Pigford v. Glickman" and in 1999, the black farmers won their case. The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims.

But then on
February 23, 2010, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment: In total silence, the USDA agreed to
release more funds to "Pigford".


The amount was a staggering...... $1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs - 400 black farmers - had now...
Swollen in a class action suit to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout
America .

There was only one teensy problem: The United States of America doesn't have 86,000 black farmers !!!!

According to accurate and totally verifiable Official USDA 2007 Census census data, the total number of black farmers
throughout America is only 39,697.

Hmmm.. By the Official USDA 1992 Census data the US had only 18,816 black farmers !!

Oops !! Well, gosh - how on earth did 39,697 explode into the fraudulent 86,000 claims ?? And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion ??

Well, folks, you'll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded this case because of her position in 1997 at the "Rural Development Leadership Network" but whose family received the highest single payout (approximately $13 million) from that action - Shirley Sherrod.

Oops again !! Yes, folks. It appears that Ms. Sherrod had just unwittingly exposed herself as the perpetrator of one of the biggest fraud claims in the United States - - a fraud enabled solely because she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into submission.

And it gets even more interesting.

Ms. Sherrod has also exposed the person who aided and abetted her in this race fraud.

As it turns out, the original judgment of "Pigford v. Glickman" in 1999 only applied to a total of about 16,000 black farmers.

But.... In 2008, a junior US Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allow more black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Hussein Obama.

Because this law was passed in dead silence and because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race claim.

But Breitbart knew. And on
Monday, July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a trap which Sherrod - - and Obama + his cronies - - stumbled
headfirst into which has now resulted in the entire world discovering the existence of this corrupt financial judgment.

As for Ms. Sherrod ?? Well, she's discovering too late that her cry of 'racism' to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight on
Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself - and the huge corruption. Sherrod has vanished from public view.

But the perpetrator of that law passed in dead silence leading to unlawful claims & corruption..... Is still trying to fool all of US.

Google and read for yourself "Pigford vs. Glickman"


 

GodSlave

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What sites to you go to? Local, State, Federal, and Private entities all give grants for farming. The Feds give quite phenomenal loans and assist in private loan stupendously, as you said, they really work to get you low interest.
Well, I went to the FSA (Farm Service Agency) and researched the fed govt. loan program for new farmers. I didn't dig much farther than that, like at the state or local lvl. Here is the site I am talking about: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=fmlp&topic=landing&utm_source=spotlight&utm_medium=click&utm_content=rotation3&utm_campaign=loanseducation
GS:leaf:
 
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