Reply #82: Somewhat vague article [View All]

[Tashca]

Revenue over $500.000. I am going to assume at this point that only includes the commodities they receive direct payments for. I am also going to assume that off farm income will not count or diversified products like livestock will not count against this.

Here in my area based on todays prices and approximate yeilds.... for a corn - soybean rotation that would place the limit somewhere around 800 - 1000 acres. Most farms this size or smaller normally have off farm income......usually one or both spouses...or for a single person they normally would be working an in town job to supplement their income. My gut instinct says this might be a good thing. I am curious to see more details. Yes many entities will divide into smaller ones to qualify for not going over the limit. I hope there are conditions put on this to stop this so called farming the farm program. I could also see larger farms changing rotations to limit the amount of qualifying commodities they grow and try something else..

So many questions........but it really needs to be done. I agree with that.

This will have a much larger impact on the southern states farms.