Tagg Romney has been officially confirmed as a guest speaker at the Republican Party's Presidential Preference Straw Poll. Tagg, one of five sons, will speak on behalf of his father, Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney.
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North Dakota's Congressional Delegation! North Dakota's Share/Input! Posted on AGWEB by: Truepolicy on 10/16/2007 6:00:50 PM
"North Dakota’s Share!" Please examine the enclosed farm bill benefits delivered by the North Dakota Congressional delegation, compared to southern States. I think North Dakota will easily see why their delegations new focus is on disaster aid. For their leadership has been a disaster for all North Dakota residents based on subsidies per acre and total value for their state. First compare what 400,000 acres of subsidized oats base acres have delivered to North Dakota, compared to 400,000 acres of rice base acres in Louisiana, from direct payments over the last twelve years. The North Dakota total was about $4,800,000 compared to Louisiana receiving about $400,000,000 or Five million dollars compared to Four-hundred million for the same land area. So a farmer with 100 acres of oat payment acres in ND on his farm over the last twelve years he received about $1200 bucks. While the Louisiana rice farmer with 100 acres of rice base acres received about $100,000 in subsidy dollars or almost $90,000 more. Now remember direct subsidies are not tied to production. So both the Farmer in North Dakota and Louisiana could have planted soybeans or any crop on their 100 acres each year and would still face the big difference in subsidies. Yet it doesn’t stop there. Under the 2002 farm act, North Dakota farmers have harvested an average of about 1,367,000 acres of barley annually. While annually the nations peanut farmers have also harvested about 1,367,000 acres of peanuts. So when you include the counter-cyclical subsidy under the 2002 farm act which is also not tied to production we find the following. The average subsidy for barley over the last six years is about $12 per acre or about $16,400,000 annually based on harvested acres for North Dakota. While peanut subsidies for the same harvested acres is about $152 per acre for a total annual peanut subsidy of about $208,000,000. So comparing peanuts for the ball park compared to the beer for barley under the 2002 farm act. The peanut subsidy total not tied to production will top One billion dollars or $1,246,704,000. Compared to North Dakota’s total for the same acres of about only a 100 million or $98,400,000 under the 2002 farm act. What’s really interesting comparing peanuts to barley under the 2002 farm act, is the 2002 farm act ended the "managed for no cost peanut program" by buying out mostly long time peanut quota holders. This was really Farmland Owners who just rented their government entitlement to real peanut growers for about $80 per acre annually. So when you compare total government outlays for barley in ND and peanuts under the 2002 farm act the benefits for peanut farmers really jump. For USDA’s Enron accounting system CCC net outlays, show taxpayers have spent over Three billion dollars under the 2002 farm to replace a no cost peanut program. This also lowered the farm price of peanuts from about 28 cent per pound to 18 cents. Making peanut farmers our newest subsidy Daddies. So when compared to our annual harvested acre of peanuts, the total benefits to the peanut states is now about $2300 per acre under the 2002 farm act, compared to North Dakota’s oat’s of about $6 or barley of about $72. Sadly this is the just the tip of iceberg if you really audit U.S. Farm policy! So when Dan Morgan of the Washington Post says we need to look to Senator Conrad for Senate farm leadership the record clearly say’s "NOT"! www.Truepolicy.com Alan Roebke (rebkey) Chaska Minnesota
Also left out of the Senate farm bill debate, some interesting rice production history under the 2002 farm act! For USDA numbers show under the 2002 farm act, on average, rice farmers have only planted 69% of their rice base acres to rice. Meaning they enjoyed direct and CCP subsidies of about $118 per acre for raising the same crops you received. Yet you received just $12 to $35 per acre in subsidies to raise the same crops. What's really interesting, these privileged base acres total more acres annually than the total average annual peanut crop! Should this be added to the Senate farm bill markup session? Truepolicy
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