interesting article on the bailout and cows

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"Taking milk cows out of production as a way to control milk prices is a controversial approach. The federal government tried that in the 1980s through the whole herd buyout program, and while the policy worked for a time, milk production eventually bounced back and farmers were once again grappling with low milk prices.

The buyout also sent beef prices crashing, as slaughtered cows entered the meat supply."
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"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
Dwight D. Eisenhower


Talk about a real scam. :furious3:

The pencil pushers in Washington said they figured about 6% of the dairy farmers would sell off their herds under that insane program, the figure turned out to be more like 37%.

Guess what the remedy was????

They put foreign nationals in business, one 10,000 cow dairy farm was funded by Washington in Alabama in the name of attracting foreign investment. There was no foreign investment!!!!!!!! It was our tax dollars or more accurately the tax dollars of our grandchildren.

'Controversial' is putting it very mildly, it was absolutely insane unless of course you are looking at it from the point of view of the international socialist!!!!!
 
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Pelosi's new agriculture committee;

News from the House Agriculture Committee

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Media Contacts:
April Slayton (202) 225-6872
Scott Kuschmider (202) 225-1496

Agriculture Committee Chair Peterson Announces Agriculture Committee Members

WASHINGTON - Agriculture Committee Chair Collin C.
Peterson of Minnesotaannounced the Members of Congress selected to serve on the House Agriculture Committee for the 111th Congress today.

The House Democratic Steering Committee, including 11
freshmen Members and 17 returning Members, to serve on the House Agriculture Committee. The House
Republican Conference has named 17 Republicans to serve on the Committee and has left one seat vacant.

"The Agriculture Committee is responsible for issues as varied as farm programs, commodity markets, nutrition, conservation, renewable energy, and rural development,
so the diverse experiences of these members will bring new ideas and energy to our work on these important issues," Chair Peterson said.

The 28 Democrats who will serve on the committee are:

. Chair Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota
. Representative Tim Holden of Pennsylvania
. Representative Mike McIntyre of North Carolina
. Representative Leonard L. Boswell of Iowa
. Representative Joe Baca of California
. Representative Dennis A. Cardoza of California
. Representative David Scott of Georgia
. Representative Jim Marshall of Georgia
. Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of South Dakota
. Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas
. Representative Jim Costa of California
. Representative Brad Ellsworth of Indiana
. Representative Timothy J. Walz of Minnesota
. Representative Kirsten E. Gillibrand of New York
. Representative Steve Kagen of Wisconsin
. Representative Kurt Schrader of Oregon
. Representative Deborah L. Halvorson of Illinois
. Representative Kathleen A. Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania
. Representative Eric J. J. Massa of New York
. Representative Bobby Bright of Alabama
. Representative Betsy Markey of Colorado
. Representative Frank Kratovil, Jr. of Maryland
. Representative Mark H. Schauer of Michigan
. Representative Larry Kissell of North Carolina
. Representative John A. Boccieri of Ohio
. Representative Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota
. Representative Travis W. Childers of Mississippi
. Representative Walt Minnick of Idaho

(I suppose my own rep, Lincoln Davis has opted off the ag committee, since he was made to know in no uncertain terms he would be voted out if he supported any further Human Society initiatives.)

The 17 Republicans (with one additional vacant seat) who will serve on the
Committee are:

. Ranking Member Frank Lucas of Oklahoma
. Representative Bob Goodlatte of Virginia
. Representative Jerry Moran of Kansas
. Representative Timothy V. Johnson of Illinois
. Representative Sam Graves of Missouri
. Representative Mike Rogers of Alabama
. Representative Steve King of Iowa
. Representative Randy Neugebauer of Texas
. Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina
. Representative K. Michael Conaway of Texas
. Representative Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska
. Representative Jean Schmidt of Ohio
. Representative Adrian Smith of Nebraska
. Representative Robert E. Latta of Ohio
. Representative Phil Roe of Tennessee
. Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer of Missouri
. Representative Glenn W. Thompson of Pennsylvania
. one vacancy

The House Agriculture Committee has jurisdiction over a wide range of agriculture and rural development issues.

These areas include renewable energy, disaster assistance, nutrition, crop insurance, conservation, international trade, futures market regulation, animal and plant health, agricultural research, bioterrorism,
forestry, and others.

Congressman Peterson has served as chair of the Agriculture Committee since
2007.

Does anyone else like to read articles by Jim Beers???
 
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Lincoln left Agriculture for Appropriations...not a bad gig at all. He is on Appropriations subcommittees for Ag, FDA, etc. as well as the Appropriations subcommittee for energy and water development.

An interesting thing to note is that Lincoln has more federal R&D dollars being spent in his district than any other congressman. That doesn't mean federal dollars of course, just research and development dollars, but was still surprising to me. I would suspect that Tullahoma is responsible for a lot of this. He's talking up Oak Ridge support now a lot with his new positions on Appropriations....having your hands on the purse strings feels good, I guess.
 
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TennTradition said:
Lincoln left Agriculture for Appropriations...not a bad gig at all. He is on Appropriations subcommittees for Ag, FDA, etc. as well as the Appropriations subcommittee for energy and water development.

An interesting thing to note is that Lincoln has more federal R&D dollars being spent in his district than any other congressman. That doesn't mean federal dollars of course, just research and development dollars, but was still surprising to me. I would suspect that Tullahoma is responsible for a lot of this. He's talking up Oak Ridge support now a lot with his new positions on Appropriations....having your hands on the purse strings feels good, I guess.
Click to expand...

You can see the dollar signs in his eyes if you look close.

He's thinking of running for governor.

I know one vote he won't get.
 
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