Including yourself, Chuckles? [View all]
Chuckles helped write a letter to the USDA asking them to limit payments to actual farmers.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, co-authored a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue asking him to use his authority to limit payments out of the Farm Bill to those “actively engaged in farming.”
In the letter, Grassley bemoaned “passive investors and mega-farms” who use loopholes in the annual farm bill to line their pockets with the federal agriculture safety net money.
“The farm safety net in this country was never intended to maximize government payments or cover every bushel of every commodity on every acre,” the letter read. “The support programs are intended to provide support to working farmers to protect against low prices or yields and to provide enough support that if a farmer has a bad year, that farmer can survive to plant again the next year.”
Grassley’s letter — co-authored by Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, of Nebraska — claimed Perdue had the authority, under the Actively Engaged in Farming final rule of 2015, which provided a quantifiable test of a payment recipient’s participation in farm management.
You plan on not taking any more of this money Chuckles since you're making a bunch off donors and the like?
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