"Bob Ackley -> Ross Cassell"  wrote in
news:20276$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>>> I've already shown how corn farmers get thiese direct
 RS>>> subsidies, they get in a month more than I would get in 25
 RS>>> years.

 RS>>> Oh that's different!

 RC>> Yes it is.

 BA> I know a lot of farmers.  Most grow either corn or soybeans (and most
 BA> switch crops every couple of years - the field surrounding my house is
 BA> usually corn but
 BA> in 2009 it was soybeans).  AFAIK none of them are getting much if
 BA> anything from the Crop Reserve Program (which is the outfit that pays
 BA> farmers not to grow crops).
 BA> There isn't much land around here that is in that program.

So who does get those billions of $$$ not to grow anything?
The answer is, wealthy corporate farmers.

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