Trump scrambles to keep farmers from the shitter

As the Trump Organization ends environmental protection ag bankers continue to enslave landowners and more farms are headed for bankruptcy. The number of farms filing Chapter 12 bankruptcy increased in 2019 from the previous year according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

It is the largest increase in filings since 2010 when Chapter 12 filings increased by 33% coming off the recession of 2009. There were 595 Chapter 12 filings in 2019, according to AFBF's review of court data, or about 100 more than in 2018. The rate of filings was much higher in 1987, the year after the Chapter 12 provision was created. [More Farms Turn to Bankruptcy in 2019]

On Feb. 3 Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the final pool of cash in the 2019 Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments aimed at buying off welfare farmers will begin to show up in bank accounts by the end of this week even as Trump continues his war on the poor.

Payments will be made by FSA under the authority of CCC Charter Act to producers of alfalfa hay, barley, canola, corn, crambe, dried beans, dry peas, extra-long staple cotton, flaxseed, lentils, long grain and medium grain rice, millet, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, rapeseed, rye, safflower, sesame seed, small and large chickpeas, sorghum, soybeans, sunflower seed, temperate japonica rice, triticale, upland cotton, and wheat. MFP payments will also be made to producers of almonds, cranberries, cultivated ginseng, fresh grapes, fresh sweet cherries, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans, pistachios, and walnuts. Each specialty crop will receive a payment based on 2019 acres of fruit or nut bearing plants, or in the case of ginseng, based on harvested acres in 2019. [USDA issues third tranche of 2019 MFP payments]

Yes, socialized agriculture, socialized dairies, socialized cheese, socialized livestock production, a socialized timber industry, socialized air service, socialized freight rail, a socialized nursing home industry and now a socialized internet are all fine with Republicans in South Dakota but then they insist single-payer medical insurance is socialized medicine.