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PriceZ of EggZ (retarded conjobs get smoked AGAIN)
5 Mar 2025 8:22 pm
First, my comment was facetious.Fuelman » Today, 8:35 am » wrote: ↑ That may very well end up being the case but do we really want to expose our food supply to the perils of mother nature? A couple of bad seasons can wipe out a farm fairly easy. We don't abuse the system, only want to cover expenses and a small profit. Wheat crop was a bust last year, Milo did great. We depend on mother nature to supply the water and she can be a little bitchy at times.
I was a little surprised by how few small farmers actually purchase crop insurance. Premiums have gone up and even with the subsidy can be an expense small operations can't handle. Yes, big AG surely gets the lions share of those subsidies.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ ... tId=109049
About 13 percent of U.S. farms participated in Federal crop insurance programs in 2022, with the highest share of participants coming from small family farms. The four types of small family farms (retirement, off-farm occupation, low sales, and moderate sales) accounted for 54 percent of the participants in Federal crop insurance programs and received 12 percent of the insurance payments. Small family farms harvested 26 percent of all cropland acres. On the other hand, midsize and large-scale family farm operators accounted for a slightly lower proportion of Federal crop insurance participants (42 percent) but harvested a majority of the U.S. cropland acres (67 percent) and received 80 percent of payments from Federal crop insurance. Larger farms like these account for 46 percent of agricultural acres operated in 2022. Researchers with USDA, Economic Research Service examined survey data and found that participation rates varied widely across commodity production. In 2022, 62 percent of farms producing row crops (cotton, corn, soybeans, wheat, peanuts, rice, and sorghum) purchased Federal crop insurance, while 9 percent of farms growing specialty crops, such as fruits, vegetables, and nursery crops, did the same. This chart appears in America’s Farms and Ranches at a Glance, published December 2023
Second, it seems like another case of, "It's ok if I get some subsidies but undeserving groups like [A, B, C] shouldn't."
And before you ask, no, I don't want to fund transgenderism in mice "studies," but at the same time I doubt having some inspectors to make sure our water supply isn't tainted with raw sewage is a "waste of money" (as the Muskrat himself might claim)