Estimated 30,000 farmers at risk of going under due to freeze of grant funds...

[vision63]

RecipeForDisaster wrote:
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They had one on the TV the other day - the government…well, the government before Trump - was going to help them expand their production/sale capacity. They were a smaller egg producer, among other things. They’d put in $80K, IIRC, to build a larger building, and the government was going to reimburse some of that with a grant to help them out.

Now they’d been left high and dry. There was real concern on their point what would happen if the government didn’t come through as promised; it might mean bankruptcy. They didn’t know what they were going to do.

My ancestors were almost all farmers up to <100 years ago. I felt no glee about this. These are people’s lives…as are immigrants who are being grabbed up and shipped overseas because they have the wrong tattoo. Or others being detained and separated from their families because they called to end the slaughter in Gaza.

No “teams” here. Just concern for other human beings.

I’m in this boat. I only have a subsistence farm, enough for my family, but I have multiple grants going on with USDA each year. We were notified that although we have a valid contracts, they’ve been told not to pay us for now. It is so bad for the USA that farmers can no longer trust these programs.
Pure disaster

[RecipeForDisaster]

vision63 wrote:
[quote=RecipeForDisaster]
[quote=pdq]
They had one on the TV the other day - the government…well, the government before Trump - was going to help them expand their production/sale capacity. They were a smaller egg producer, among other things. They’d put in $80K, IIRC, to build a larger building, and the government was going to reimburse some of that with a grant to help them out.

Now they’d been left high and dry. There was real concern on their point what would happen if the government didn’t come through as promised; it might mean bankruptcy. They didn’t know what they were going to do.

My ancestors were almost all farmers up to <100 years ago. I felt no glee about this. These are people’s lives…as are immigrants who are being grabbed up and shipped overseas because they have the wrong tattoo. Or others being detained and separated from their families because they called to end the slaughter in Gaza.

No “teams” here. Just concern for other human beings.

I’m in this boat. I only have a subsistence farm, enough for my family, but I have multiple grants going on with USDA each year. We were notified that although we have a valid contracts, they’ve been told not to pay us for now. It is so bad for the USA that farmers can no longer trust these programs.
Pure disaster Ha, I’ve never heard that one before!

We owe many thousands for work that was already done, but which NRCS grants were supposed to pay for. At least I confirmed that I am not paying the usual 40% income tax on those grants because they were not actually paid out .