Worse drought in 50 years or longer and Ryan blocks the farm bill relief fund

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The Midwest is currently suffering from the worst drought in half a century, leaving a critical gap in livestock production in the country. Obama has repeatedly called on Congress to pass a farm bill that would provide disaster aid to more farmers and ranchers.
The folks suffering from this drought can't wait for Congress to do its job. So in the meantime, I've made sure my Administration is doing everything we can to provide relief to those who need it. Last week, we announced $30 million to help farmers and ranchers, get more water to livestock, and rehabilitate land affected by the drought. Today, we're announcing that the federal government will help livestock producers by purchasing over $150 million worth of meat and fish now, while prices are low, and freeze it for later."
Obama Targets Paul Ryan Over Farm Bill In Iowa

I guess Obama will be blamed for the drought too, while Ryan was sitting on his hands refusing to get relief out to these farmers and pass the bill.. I think many of these staled attempts by Ryan are going to come back and bite him in the ass.. Perhaps the farm bills is just giving our US money away too..shakes head
 
How about just releasing corn from biofuel obligations and let farmers produce food instead? That's what the farmers have asked for and that's what obama has refused.

Instead, the government will buy up meat and fish to redistribute later as it sees fit and keep prices high.

Yes indeed, it is the socialist answer to a free market problem.
 
The Midwest is currently suffering from the worst drought in half a century, leaving a critical gap in livestock production in the country. Obama has repeatedly called on Congress to pass a farm bill that would provide disaster aid to more farmers and ranchers.
The folks suffering from this drought can't wait for Congress to do its job. So in the meantime, I've made sure my Administration is doing everything we can to provide relief to those who need it. Last week, we announced $30 million to help farmers and ranchers, get more water to livestock, and rehabilitate land affected by the drought. Today, we're announcing that the federal government will help livestock producers by purchasing over $150 million worth of meat and fish now, while prices are low, and freeze it for later."
Obama Targets Paul Ryan Over Farm Bill In Iowa

I guess Obama will be blamed for the drought too, while Ryan was sitting on his hands refusing to get relief out to these farmers and pass the bill.. I think many of these staled attempts by Ryan are going to come back and bite him in the ass.. Perhaps the farm bills is just giving our US money away too..shakes head

It would be against Obama's 'paygo' law, would it not?
 
The Midwest is currently suffering from the worst drought in half a century, leaving a critical gap in livestock production in the country. Obama has repeatedly called on Congress to pass a farm bill that would provide disaster aid to more farmers and ranchers.
The folks suffering from this drought can't wait for Congress to do its job. So in the meantime, I've made sure my Administration is doing everything we can to provide relief to those who need it. Last week, we announced $30 million to help farmers and ranchers, get more water to livestock, and rehabilitate land affected by the drought. Today, we're announcing that the federal government will help livestock producers by purchasing over $150 million worth of meat and fish now, while prices are low, and freeze it for later."
Obama Targets Paul Ryan Over Farm Bill In Iowa

I guess Obama will be blamed for the drought too, while Ryan was sitting on his hands refusing to get relief out to these farmers and pass the bill.. I think many of these staled attempts by Ryan are going to come back and bite him in the ass.. Perhaps the farm bills is just giving our US money away too..shakes head

Obama doesn't understand that we are broke!

Stupid fucking liberals!
 
The Midwest is currently suffering from the worst drought in half a century, leaving a critical gap in livestock production in the country. Obama has repeatedly called on Congress to pass a farm bill that would provide disaster aid to more farmers and ranchers.
The folks suffering from this drought can't wait for Congress to do its job. So in the meantime, I've made sure my Administration is doing everything we can to provide relief to those who need it. Last week, we announced $30 million to help farmers and ranchers, get more water to livestock, and rehabilitate land affected by the drought. Today, we're announcing that the federal government will help livestock producers by purchasing over $150 million worth of meat and fish now, while prices are low, and freeze it for later."
Obama Targets Paul Ryan Over Farm Bill In Iowa

I guess Obama will be blamed for the drought too, while Ryan was sitting on his hands refusing to get relief out to these farmers and pass the bill.. I think many of these staled attempts by Ryan are going to come back and bite him in the ass.. Perhaps the farm bills is just giving our US money away too..shakes head

It's a states issue, not a federal one.
 
How about just releasing corn from biofuel obligations and let farmers produce food instead? That's what the farmers have asked for and that's what obama has refused.

Instead, the government will buy up meat and fish to redistribute later as it sees fit and keep prices high.

Yes indeed, it is the socialist answer to a free market problem.

News source link on how this will help the farmers who depend on their crops every year, dying cattle from drought ridden ranches please.
 
The Midwest is currently suffering from the worst drought in half a century, leaving a critical gap in livestock production in the country. Obama has repeatedly called on Congress to pass a farm bill that would provide disaster aid to more farmers and ranchers.
The folks suffering from this drought can't wait for Congress to do its job. So in the meantime, I've made sure my Administration is doing everything we can to provide relief to those who need it. Last week, we announced $30 million to help farmers and ranchers, get more water to livestock, and rehabilitate land affected by the drought. Today, we're announcing that the federal government will help livestock producers by purchasing over $150 million worth of meat and fish now, while prices are low, and freeze it for later."
Obama Targets Paul Ryan Over Farm Bill In Iowa

I guess Obama will be blamed for the drought too, while Ryan was sitting on his hands refusing to get relief out to these farmers and pass the bill.. I think many of these staled attempts by Ryan are going to come back and bite him in the ass.. Perhaps the farm bills is just giving our US money away too..shakes head

It's a states issue, not a federal one.

It will soon or already may have become a national problem.
 
Drought crop damage worsens, ethanol waiver urged - chicagotribune.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The worst drought in more than 50 years has caused more damage than expected to corn and soybean crops, the government said on Friday, heightening calls for a suspension of ethanol quotas to head off another global food crisis.

While benchmark corn and wheat futures closed lower in Chicago, experts say food prices appear set to keep rising after a 6 percent jump last month, escalating a food-versus-fuel debate centered on a law that dictates that about 40 percent of the corn crop must be converted into ethanol.

Hours after the Department of Agriculture said the corn yield would likely fall to its lowest since 1995, worse than forecast, the governors of two poultry-producing states asked the Obama administration to waive the ethanol requirement, the first formal request for relief.

A request that was denied.

obama might well be blamed for a food crisis throughout the world.
 
Drought crop damage worsens, ethanol waiver urged - chicagotribune.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The worst drought in more than 50 years has caused more damage than expected to corn and soybean crops, the government said on Friday, heightening calls for a suspension of ethanol quotas to head off another global food crisis.

While benchmark corn and wheat futures closed lower in Chicago, experts say food prices appear set to keep rising after a 6 percent jump last month, escalating a food-versus-fuel debate centered on a law that dictates that about 40 percent of the corn crop must be converted into ethanol.

Hours after the Department of Agriculture said the corn yield would likely fall to its lowest since 1995, worse than forecast, the governors of two poultry-producing states asked the Obama administration to waive the ethanol requirement, the first formal request for relief.

A request that was denied.

obama might well be blamed for a food crisis throughout the world.

Oh, thanks for making my point. The farmers didn't request a cut in the demand for their product.
 
Didn't the farmers favor the bio-fuel program? I don't think it began under this administration, either. Again, it is a mistake that has been going on for a long time.
Now, ethanol is integrated into a 'plan' to reduce emissions and cannot be abandoned.
Emissions indeed should have been and should still be reduced, but this is a ridiculous idea. Not that the US is alone in the folly; they do it in at least parts of Europe. Agricultural lobbies militated for it.
Obama may be wrong, but he is only continuing a bad idea begun by others.
Helping areas of the country touched by natural disasters is commonly a Federal matter.
There are many reasons to oppose the present administration, but this doesn't seem appropriate.
 
Drought crop damage worsens, ethanol waiver urged - chicagotribune.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The worst drought in more than 50 years has caused more damage than expected to corn and soybean crops, the government said on Friday, heightening calls for a suspension of ethanol quotas to head off another global food crisis.

While benchmark corn and wheat futures closed lower in Chicago, experts say food prices appear set to keep rising after a 6 percent jump last month, escalating a food-versus-fuel debate centered on a law that dictates that about 40 percent of the corn crop must be converted into ethanol.

Hours after the Department of Agriculture said the corn yield would likely fall to its lowest since 1995, worse than forecast, the governors of two poultry-producing states asked the Obama administration to waive the ethanol requirement, the first formal request for relief.

A request that was denied.

obama might well be blamed for a food crisis throughout the world.


Price of grain is directly correlated to starvation rates in third world nations.

Why does Obama hate brown people?
 
We're gonna pay for it one way or another: By giving the farmers the money through a govt handout, or by giving them the money through skyrocketed food prices.

Cheap food is gone folks. Thats what a world with 7 billion people means.
 
Didn't the farmers favor the bio-fuel program? I don't think it began under this administration, either. Again, it is a mistake that has been going on for a long time.
Now, ethanol is integrated into a 'plan' to reduce emissions and cannot be abandoned.
Emissions indeed should have been and should still be reduced, but this is a ridiculous idea. Not that the US is alone in the folly; they do it in at least parts of Europe. Agricultural lobbies militated for it.
Obama may be wrong, but he is only continuing a bad idea begun by others.
Helping areas of the country touched by natural disasters is commonly a Federal matter.
There are many reasons to oppose the present administration, but this doesn't seem appropriate.

Then let the people starve. Food prices will be stratospheric just to produce this regime's biofuel.

Engineered famines have been communist stock in trade since Lenin.
 
Didn't the farmers favor the bio-fuel program? I don't think it began under this administration, either. Again, it is a mistake that has been going on for a long time.
Now, ethanol is integrated into a 'plan' to reduce emissions and cannot be abandoned.
Emissions indeed should have been and should still be reduced, but this is a ridiculous idea. Not that the US is alone in the folly; they do it in at least parts of Europe. Agricultural lobbies militated for it.
Obama may be wrong, but he is only continuing a bad idea begun by others.
Helping areas of the country touched by natural disasters is commonly a Federal matter.
There are many reasons to oppose the present administration, but this doesn't seem appropriate.

you can still buy ethanol free gas. I do it all the time where I live. There are big signs that tell people their gas is ethanol free.
 
We're gonna pay for it one way or another: By giving the farmers the money through a govt handout, or by giving them the money through skyrocketed food prices.

Cheap food is gone folks. Thats what a world with 7 billion people means.

Population Growth is not the Driving Factor in the Recent Increases in food Prices. It's being Driving by the Increasing amount of Basic Food Stocks used to Feed Farm Animals that are going instead to create Bio Fuels.
 
Didn't the farmers favor the bio-fuel program? I don't think it began under this administration, either. Again, it is a mistake that has been going on for a long time.
Now, ethanol is integrated into a 'plan' to reduce emissions and cannot be abandoned.
Emissions indeed should have been and should still be reduced, but this is a ridiculous idea. Not that the US is alone in the folly; they do it in at least parts of Europe. Agricultural lobbies militated for it.
Obama may be wrong, but he is only continuing a bad idea begun by others.
Helping areas of the country touched by natural disasters is commonly a Federal matter.
There are many reasons to oppose the present administration, but this doesn't seem appropriate.

Then let the people starve. Food prices will be stratospheric just to produce this regime's biofuel.

Engineered famines have been communist stock in trade since Lenin.

awe yes that darn communistic God.he has famines, pestilence, etc. all preplanned for being bad, mkay. Oh and don't forget god has preplanned for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Darn that Lenin inclined God(sarcasm)
 
We're gonna pay for it one way or another: By giving the farmers the money through a govt handout, or by giving them the money through skyrocketed food prices.

Cheap food is gone folks. Thats what a world with 7 billion people means.

Population Growth is not the Driving Factor in the Recent Increases in food Prices. It's being Driving by the Increasing amount of Basic Food Stocks used to Feed Farm Animals that are going instead to create Bio Fuels.

Biocars dont burn peanut butter, milk and bread, and that shits tripled in price.
 

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