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HEY! I'm not producing wind power...I want my money too!

Wow.... subsidize to build them and subsidize to shut them down...

OMG I would be pissed, when will the riots start? With all this BS taxing everything over and over again, when will the people lose there minds? :(

Careful, this will become a politics topic real fast. I don't think they are allowed.

But I completely agree with everything said so far :)

I worked for a farmer that was paid subsidies to have me plow under a perfectly good crop of maze.
The reason was to keep the price artificially high. I'm assuming this was the intent of the wind farm issue.
Totally insane!!!

If I put a windmill in my back yard, could I get paid to NOT use it?

Better yet, could I get paid to not even put the windmill there in the first place? :blockhead:

That farmer was an idiot. He should have harvested the crop and sold it for cash at stands along the road and at flea markets and things like that, and then he'd have made even MORE MONEY!!!!!

If I put a windmill in my back yard, could I get paid to NOT use it?

Better yet, could I get paid to not even put the windmill there in the first place? :blockhead:

That farmer was an idiot. He should have harvested the crop and sold it for cash at stands along the road and at flea markets and things like that, and then he'd have made even MORE MONEY!!!!!

No Tim K. It is called CRP and it is used in the short term to keep crop prices up and in the long term to preserve the farm land so it can be put back into production in case of an emergency (world war, long term drought, etc).

Well, if I were the farmer, that is exactly what I would do.:icon_smile:

Money from the government + money from cash sales = MORE MONEY!!!!!!

If I put a windmill in my back yard, could I get paid to NOT use it?

Better yet, could I get paid to not even put the windmill there in the first place? :blockhead:

That farmer was an idiot. He should have harvested the crop and sold it for cash at stands along the road and at flea markets and things like that, and then he'd have made even MORE MONEY!!!!!

You're not going to sell maze at a roadside stand. It goes through a grain silo and is then shipped to the buyers. The state and federal govt. know where every ounce of that grain ends up.

Well, if I were the farmer, that is exactly what I would do.:icon_smile:

Money from the government + money from cash sales = MORE MONEY!!!!!!
No you wouldn't.
We had to have it plowed under by a certain date which was well before harvest time. They flew planes over to verify that the acreage was in fact plowed under before he got his subsidies.

It had everything to do with keeping prices artificially high and nothing at all to do with preserving land. The environuts will tell you that plowing is destroying the land yet that's exactly what we did. We fertilized each year so the soil wasn't being depleted. I didn't agree with plowing under crops then nor do I now but that's what we did.

Well, I'd find a way to make money out of it. There's GOT to be a way....