Maybe only horticulture and fruit farming is benefiting.
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It seems each government needs to put their spin on these programs because the previous governments couldn't possibly be headed in the right direction. The thinking seems to be the longer we can drag things out and shuffle papers we can appear like we give a s&$t and maybe keep those dumb bastards voting for us.In my opinion, we had what was needed years ago with some tweaking of NISA and Crop Ins. I never have enrolled in AgriStabilty for numerous reasons and have never regretted it. I have given up years ago that bureaucrats and the finance minister will ever get it right.
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NISA started out with a 3% of sales contribution/matching funds did it not?
Put a cap on it, bring back the 3% and go from there. In a few years, most guys would have pretty good money in the accounts to help offset poor years.
For every half million in sales, after three years, you would potentially have 90 000 in there to draw on in bad times.
Cap it at three years of contributions, and go from there.
It is all we would need, no? A farm with 2 million sales, would be able to sock away 120 a year, (with govt funds), and have 360 to help when needed.
Or is it too rich that way? I dunno, it is a simple program that would be easy to police abuse and stop abuse from happening in the first place.
And then a bit of an improved crop ins. and we should be good to go.
I know I would have sure faired better in rough times, if the ENS was 3%, not 1%.
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