MN to pay farmers for.....

[Fish Felon]

Minnesota to pay farmers for leaving corn stalks to block snow

Associated Press

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 - 12:01 a.m.


Corn harvest (AP Photo/St. Cloud Times, Jun-Kai Teoh) (Jun-Kai Teoh/AP)
Minnesota officials are offering to pay farmers who leave corn stalks standing along highways this winter to help keep snow from drifting.

The state Department of Transportation says stalks can break the wind's force and limit snow from blowing onto roads. Farmers can earn money on a per-acre basis if they leave six to 20 rows of corn stalks standing.

The department is especially looking for farmers with fields to the north and west of highways where snow drifting often causes problems. Farmers make a one-season commitment from October until mid-April.

[greatwhitehunter3!]

And?

[9manfan]

Cheaper than putting snow fences up.......

[Fish Felon]

And?

Just another example of how a once great civic-minded people turned into the biggest Jews in modern history.

Back in the day a farmer would be like,

"You know, the snow drifts out there on that road awful bad. Me and my family use that road, my neighbors use that road...I'm going to leave a few rows left standing to make it safer for everyone."

Now they're like,

"Pay me motherf--ker...I only cleared $350K last year."

Hell, a lot of old time farmers would have gone a step further and put a shelter belt in there to help alleviate the problem. The modern farmer ripped that out long ago.

I think MNDOT should plant shelter belts in the ditches as close as they can to the property line. It makes a lot of sense. It'd be a long term solution, it'd probably be cheaper, it'd provide cover for wildlife, and what happens next year if that same farmer plants soy beans? Snow is going to drift in awful bad. But then the problem would be the farmers bitching...

"Goddamn MNDOT planting trees right next to my property! How the hell am I supposed to plant into the ditch now? I'm going to lose at least three rows due to those dirty bastards and when those trees get taller they're going to block some of the sunlight onto my crop and reduce my yield on an entire acre!"

The modern MN farmer: greedier and less civic-minded than a wall street banker.

[gimpfinger]

I see nothing wrong wit dis. Less money spent running equipment for snow removal. Plus it will leave move waste grain for wildlife.

your mom...

[tornadochaser]

Mndot has been doing this program for years. Old news.

[Trigger]

Once again, paying farmers not to do anything. I'm surprised more farmers don't have zip codes in North Minneapolis with all the government hand outs they receive.

[greatwhitehunter3!]

I'm sure they're getting 3x what they would be getting to harvest it.

[Trigger]

I'm sure they're getting 3x what they would be getting to harvest it.

At a minimum.

[NitroZ9 Duck Killin]

Mndot has been doing this program for years. Old news.

Been happening since before Al Gore invented the interwebs.