NOW THAT'S NOT FUNNY

Wheat Prices Rise in Kansas?

Rank Recipient* Location Wheat Subsidies
1995-2004

1 Winger Farms Johnson, KS 67855 $2,564,065

2 Whit-crop Leoti, KS 67861 $1,659,049

3 Clawson Farm Partnership Satanta, KS 67870 $1,515,111

4 Irsik Family Partnership Ingalls, KS 67853 $1,424,082

5 Beachner Brothers Partnership Saint Paul, KS 66771 $1,286,256

6 F & J Farms Goodland, KS 67735 $1,275,437

7 Midwestern Farming Co Ptr Saint Paul, KS 66771 $1,239,312

8 Gregory Farms Partnership Milton, KS 67106 $1,207,016

9 Fisher Farming Mc Donald, KS 67745 $1,144,597

10 Mid-kansas Cooperative Assoc Moundridge, KS 67107 $1,143,382

11 Boekhaus & Boekhaus Richfield, KS 67953 $1,137,084

12 Mckinney Farms Weskan, KS 67762 $1,091,581

13 Flying S Partnership Norcatur, KS 67653 $1,083,980

14 Cross Bell Farms Partnership Deerfield, KS 67838 $1,010,520

15 Dave & Betty Jean Schields Jv Goodland, KS 67735 $1,006,296

16 Team Marketing Alliance Moundridge, KS 67107 $938,212

17 Canny Farms Johnson, KS 67855 $817,302

18 Fischer Irrigation Wright, KS 67882 $803,103

19 Double R Ranch Atwood, KS 67730 $787,352

20 Bellamy Aerial Spraying Goodland, KS 67735 $783,630



* USDA data are not "transparent" for many payments made to recipients through most cooperatives. Recipients of payments made through most cooperatives, and the amounts, have not been made public.

Source:
http://www.ewg.org/farm/top_recips.php?fips=20000&progcode=wheat

According to the following story in the Associated Press:

Short wheat harvest drives up flour prices for consumers
ROXANA HEGEMAN
Associated Press

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/14995970.htm

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Let's understand that all prices are going up - the cost of gasoline is fueling the first round of price increases consumers are paying for absolutely everything.

We are all consumers.

Luckily for me, I'm a diabetic (never thought I'd hear myself saying that) and I've got to control my carbohydrate intake to control my blood sugar. Therefore, I don't buy much bread, and when I do I buy from the Day Old Bread Store.

So, given Government Wheat Subsidies (which are paid by tax dollars) and now it's announced that one short wheat growing season is going to increase wheat prices - I'm more than just a little befuddled.

Everyone of the above listed corporate Wheat Farms receive Wheat subsidies, and without a doubt these wheat farmers are passing along the additional cost of gasoline they pay to operate their farm equipment - so just how much will a loaf of bread cost?

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass

So we all have quietly let our elected government officials extract from us everyday working people the tax dollars that they then redistribute to rich corporations (in this case Wheat Farms run by large Corporations) and in return our elected government officials then receive campaign contributions.

Something stinks

So, what are our choices?