Or have Mitt Romney offer the $10,000.

Wally Taylor

We could probably offer a prize of, oh, $10,000

-----Original Message-----
From: William Witt <[log in to unmask]>
To: IOWA-TOPICS <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 8:49 am
Subject: Re: DM Register--thank you Francis Thicke

How about a contest?  Can anyone document an example of Iowa Farm Bureau lobbying where they weren't trying to hoodwink the public?

 

We could probably offer a prize of, oh, $10,000--confident that no one will collect.

 

BW

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Phyllis Mains <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Farm Bureau trying to 'hoodwink' the public

Iowa Farm Bureau President Craig Hill’s argument against linking conservation compliance to crop insurance subsidies is based on a fallacy (“Farmers’ Concerns Are Not Imaginary,” Feb. 5).

The centerpiece of Hill’s argument against conservation compliance is that it would make fixing a gulley on a no-till field disruptive of field operations because it “requires prior Natural Resources Conservation Service approval, which is often a two- or three-day process.” That sounded incorrect to me, so I checked with an NRCS official, and he concurred that it is simply not true that prior approval is needed to fix a gulley on a no-till field.

The Farm Bureau should simply acknowledge that they would like to receive federal subsidies without obligation for conservation, rather than try to hoodwink the public with a disingenuous argument.

— Francis Thicke, Fairfield

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