More than $18 million in grants to organizations across 24 states will help beginning farmers and ranchers with the training and resources needed to run productive, sustainable farms. Since 2009, the USDA has driven a number of efforts meant to spur interest in agriculture and provide the necessary support to young, beginning and socially-disadvantaged producers...more
Trying to figure out these DC Deep Thinkers: First, pay current farmers not to farm. Second, subsidize young, inexperienced and minority farmers to get into production. Helluva policy.
What we really need is a wall of separation between ag and state.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
$18 million wasted: USDA grants to support beginning farmers and ranchers across 24 States
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