Why are Farmers never happy?
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‘There’s a red flag here’: how an ethanol plant is dangerously polluting a US village
Situation in Mead, Nebraska, where AltEn has been processing seed coated with fungicides and insecticides, is a warning sign, experts say
www.theguardian.com
Nebraska Examiner: State approved the use of pesticide-coated seed corn for ethanol plant a decade ago
A troubled ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska had state approval to use seed corn treated with harmful pesticides years before state regulators raised concerns.
Ethanol Plant Causes Severe Pesticide Contamination in Nebraska
The majority of seed corn planted in the United States is coated with insecticides. Unsold seed corn is given to an ethanol plant for processing into biofuel—cheap disposal for the seed company and free raw material for the ethanol plant. But because this toxic material is not regulated as a...
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Isn't that fun.‘There’s a red flag here’: how an ethanol plant is dangerously polluting a US village
Situation in Mead, Nebraska, where AltEn has been processing seed coated with fungicides and insecticides, is a warning sign, experts say
Nebraska Examiner: State approved the use of pesticide-coated seed corn for ethanol plant a decade ago
A troubled ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska had state approval to use seed corn treated with harmful pesticides years before state regulators raised concerns.www.3newsnow.com
Ethanol Plant Causes Severe Pesticide Contamination in Nebraska
The majority of seed corn planted in the United States is coated with insecticides. Unsold seed corn is given to an ethanol plant for processing into biofuel—cheap disposal for the seed company and free raw material for the ethanol plant. But because this toxic material is not regulated as a...xerces.org
Farmer routinely overapplied manure to cropland for years, DNR says - Iowa Capital Dispatch
A northern Iowa farmer for years put excessive amounts of fertilizer on his crop fields at the risk of contaminating nearby waterways.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
Did you claim PPP funds? And if so, how did the covid lockdown affect your ability to farm such that you needed to claim the funds? Asking bc multiple relatives claimed it on the basis of being a sole proprietor with business of bean farmer. Got $33k each for sure and I think they got a second round which bumped the total over $50k.
Ever take out a loan at FSA office? The interest is subsidized and the rates are ceiling controlled
Must be all those cities dumping sewage in the creeks.
Edit: Jimlad added to denote sarcasm
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Farmer routinely overapplied manure to cropland for years, DNR says - Iowa Capital Dispatch
A northern Iowa farmer for years put excessive amounts of fertilizer on his crop fields at the risk of contaminating nearby waterways.
Well I guess as long as the extra fertilizer worked the farmer was happy? /s
Disagree. Just looked it up and uncle #1 got $35,600 (April 2020) and $20,800 (Jan 2021) in his two payments. His is listed as sole proprietor and corn farmer. Another got $25,000 in a single payment, a third got $41,500 (from 2 payments), and a fourth got $8,400. Cousins got $25,400 and $41,500 each from sun of two payments. So most of them danced right on that limit, but not all. However, you missed the point. They had zero interruptions to their business and none forecast either. But, they gladly took the payment because they qualified not because they needed.
So, $198k between the six of them.
On top of that, their joint business got $400,000+
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Then they paid back anything over 20,833 per person on the PPP. They issued about anything up from and then afterwards put a limit on what you didn’t have to pay back. So yes, they may have received more, but the rules out in afterwards limited it.
Don't quite a few farmers have different LLCs set up? A good friend of mine told me his semis and trailers are a different "company" than the farm.
You could well be correct. However, the point stands that they had zero need to claim those PPP funds. Their farming ventures and work were not impacted in any way during the lockdown. There was no paycheck protection occurring with those forgiven loans.
Yeah, most businesses will have LLCs to firewall the others (which usually doesn’t work anyhow). They typically are what’s considered an abandoned corporation.
There were at least 2 potential payments of that amount IIRC. So possibly 2 times $20,833. Correct me if I am wrong. In addition farmers received payments from the US for lost sales due to China’s tariffs on US grains under Trump.
