The October quarterly campaign finance reports for the candidates in the 4th Congressional District were due at the Federal Election Commission on October 15th. We’ve taken a look at the filings for Teresa Hensley (D) and Vicky Hartzler (r).

Given her past history of receiving USDA farm subsidies, we thought we’d take a look at Vicky Hartzler’s (r) campaign contributions and the USDA farm subsidies in the same zip codes as those contributors where “farmer” is indicated under name of employer/occupation on the FEC campaign finance filing [pdf].

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SCHEDULE A (FEC Form 3)

Vicky Hartzler for Congress

Martha Cubbage Nevada MO 64772-7792 Farmer 09 30 2012 Transaction ID : 21004.C10559 [$]500.00

[emphasis added]

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SCHEDULE A (FEC Form 3)

Vicky Hartzler for Congress

Brad Thompson Nevada MO 64772 Farmer 09 30 2012 Transaction ID : 21004.C10554 [$]500.00

[emphasis added]

From the Environmental Working Group Farm Subsidy Database:

EWG Farm Subsidy Database

Subsidy Recipients 1 to 30 of 928 in zipcode 64772

Recipients in this zipcode received $24,817,515 from 1995-2006

1 Bob Beisly II Nevada, MO 64772 $ 925,321.38

2 Cubbage Farms Inc Nevada, MO 64772 $ 853,519.93

3 Virgil Ast Nevada, MO 64772 $ 675,746.90

4 Gilbert Lee Willson Nevada, MO 64772 $ 671,315.79

5 C D Scotten Nevada, MO 64772 $ 652,030.08

6 James Lee Hardin Nevada, MO 64772 $ 645,233.56

7 Kenneth J Wilson Nevada, MO 64772 $ 553,420.96

8 Robert Lee Hughes Nevada, MO 64772 $ 541,441.60

9 Russell Reed Nevada, MO 64772 $ 518,894.92

10 Russell Johnson Nevada, MO 64772 $ 513,280.64

11 Donald Eugene Cubbage Nevada, MO 64772 $ 456,316.54

12 Lincoln Robert Hughes Nevada, MO 64772 $ 423,253.14

13 James L Guthrie Revocable Living Nevada, MO 64772 $ 421,357.31

14 E R Todd Jr Nevada, MO 64772 $ 416,329.45

15 Hayden Morgan Nevada, MO 64772 $ 412,136.94

16 Jeffrey D Greer Nevada, MO 64772 $ 372,997.03

17 Charlene Carlson-karnes Nevada, MO 64772 $ 366,447.18

18 Belvin R Legleiter Nevada, MO 64772 $ 364,870.71

19 Osbourn Meeker Inc Nevada, MO 64772 $ 350,222.56

20 Huleigh J Wilson Nevada, MO 64772 $ 336,598.66

21 Bradley V Thompson Nevada, MO 64772 $ 336,172.98

22 Stultz Lake Hunting & Fish Nevada, MO 64772 $ 316,000.00

23 Thompson Bros Cattle Co Nevada, MO 64772 $ 300,370.86

24 Kent Abele Nevada, MO 64772 $ 295,629.23

25 Timberhill Riverbend Inc Nevada, MO 64772 $ 290,448.55

26 W J Steward Nevada, MO 64772 $ 283,806.00

27 Ermon E Cubbage Nevada, MO 64772 $ 280,000.16

28 E Yvonne Ramsey Trust Nevada, MO 64772 $ 268,932.00

29 Tracy Beisly Nevada, MO 64772 $ 267,807.73

30 Wayside Farm Inc The Nevada, MO 64772 $ 264,297.89

There’s more:

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SCHEDULE A (FEC Form 3)

Vicky Hartzler for Congress

Jerry Schnelle Golden City MO 64747 Farmer 08 06 2012 Transaction ID : 21004.C10209 [$]2000.00

[emphasis added]

EWG Farm Subsidy Database

Subsidy Recipients 1 to 30 of 260 in zipcode 64748

Recipients in this zipcode received $14,590,238 from 1995-2006

1 Jackie L Thomas Golden City, MO 64748 $ 1,469,415.33

2 Eula Mae Thomas Golden City, MO 64748 $ 1,111,812.32

3 Jerry Schnelle Golden City, MO 64748 $ 914,199.23

4 Paul Stefan & Sons Farms Inc Golden City, MO 64748 $ 749,725.75

5 Merle Schnelle Golden City, MO 64748 $ 605,991.12

6 Kent H Schnelle Golden City, MO 64748 $ 493,450.59

7 Lyndell Wood Golden City, MO 64748 $ 429,917.67

8 Parkers Farms Inc Golden City, MO 64748 $ 419,742.51

9 Mark Whittle Dba Whittle Farms Golden City, MO 64748 $ 373,545.03

10 Ivan L Davis Golden City, MO 64748 $ 370,701.00

11 Steve E Fury Trust Dtd 05/02/03 Golden City, MO 64748 $ 340,406.66

12 Max Stratton Golden City, MO 64748 $ 336,248.37

13 Thomas Probert Combs Golden City, MO 64748 $ 290,086.50

14 Darvin Alan Bentlage Golden City, MO 64748 $ 265,037.38

15 Paul G Stefan Golden City, MO 64748 $ 264,099.85

16 Lloyd R Tubaugh Living Trust Golden City, MO 64748 $ 250,612.69

17 Poirot Farms Inc Golden City, MO 64748 $ 249,006.41

18 Jim Eldred Golden City, MO 64748 $ 223,993.00

19 William Stefan Golden City, MO 64748 $ 193,873.00

20 J D Hobbs Golden City, MO 64748 $ 188,043.19

21 Bruce Lilienkamp Golden City, MO 64748 $ 184,329.65

22 Tubaugh Enterprises LLC Golden City, MO 64748 $ 184,112.81

23 Greg Harris Golden City, MO 64748 $ 169,732.76

24 Judith K Robinson Golden City, MO 64748 $ 156,507.48

25 Bruce R Townley Golden City, MO 64748 $ 146,990.54

26 Charles Brinkhoff Golden City, MO 64748 $ 146,872.44

27 Jerry Banta Golden City, MO 64748 $ 145,279.56

28 Lila West Golden City, MO 64748 $ 139,494.81

29 John Huser Golden City, MO 64748 $ 136,552.45

30 Jerry Patterson Golden City, MO 64748 $ 135,937.83

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SCHEDULE A (FEC Form 3)

Vicky Hartzler for Congress

William Stefan Lockwood MO 65682 Farmer 08 06 2012 Transaction ID : 21004.C10205 [$]500.00

[emphasis added]

EWG Farm Subsidy Database

Subsidy Recipients 1 to 30 of 354 in zipcode 65682

Recipients in this zipcode received $21,016,613 from 1995-2006

1 Schilling Farms Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 1,605,097.74

2 William C Stefan Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 1,241,297.55

3 Wayne H Schnelle Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 1,193,360.87

4 Haubein Farms Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 1,068,569.94

5 Hedeman Farms Ltd Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 884,076.71

6 Warren Brothers Llp Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 838,896.74

7 Merle Schnelle Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 605,991.12

8 David Carrier Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 492,596.96

9 Nathan Wehrman Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 445,771.98

10 James A Schilling Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 432,253.74

11 Dale Schnelle Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 411,559.86

12 Harold Schnelle Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 402,152.38

13 Dwight Schnelle Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 390,104.94

14 Leland Eggerman Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 387,602.22

15 Roger Boehne Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 371,148.04

16 Betty Schilling Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 330,319.85

17 Kenneth Ogden Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 320,202.80

18 Tim Eggerman Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 312,436.98

19 Daniel Lee Engelage Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 255,318.29

20 Russell Niehoff Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 255,302.15

21 Charles Niehoff Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 245,626.38

22 Ronnie Backs Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 245,303.31

23 Jeff Nentrup Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 244,361.89

24 Loren Eggerman Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 236,271.36

25 Curtis Warren Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 227,221.11

26 Chris E Daniel Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 209,795.69

27 Kem Price Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 207,793.66

28 James D Parker Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 205,489.12

29 Eugene Stump Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 202,341.60

30 William Stefan Lockwood, MO 65682 $ 193,873.00

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SCHEDULE A (FEC Form 3)

Vicky Hartzler for Congress

Walter Groth Versailles MO 65084 Farmer 08 24 2012 Transaction ID : 21004.C10263 [$]100.00

[emphasis added]

EWG Farm Subsidy Database

Subsidy Recipients 1 to 30 of 295 in zipcode 65084

Recipients in this zipcode received $5,834,940 from 1995-2006

1 Melvin Gerber Versailles, MO 65084 $ 896,985.58

2 Robert C Penny III Versailles, MO 65084 $ 449,402.88

3 Homer’s Hog Farm Versailles, MO 65084 $ 371,308.13

4 Walter Groth Versailles, MO 65084 $ 366,576.75

5 El-par Farms Inc Versailles, MO 65084 $ 243,927.09

6 Frank L Nichols Versailles, MO 65084 $ 184,348.95

7 Philip R Wenger Versailles, MO 65084 $ 169,566.98

8 Brian Lehman Versailles, MO 65084 $ 154,510.87

9 Johnnie Dwayne Schad Versailles, MO 65084 $ 151,598.76

10 Quintin Lehman Versailles, MO 65084 $ 151,348.09

11 Glenn Weaver Versailles, MO 65084 $ 134,533.85

12 Chris Siegel Versailles, MO 65084 $ 124,204.10

13 James T Spahr Versailles, MO 65084 $ 112,239.53

14 Phillip Samson Versailles, MO 65084 $ 109,169.17

15 Florence Penny Versailles, MO 65084 $ 97,331.47

16 Larry Rumans Versailles, MO 65084 $ 96,927.92

17 Nolan Koehn Versailles, MO 65084 $ 96,452.54

18 Richard Dean Koehn Versailles, MO 65084 $ 93,355.96

19 Eastwood Land & Cattle Co Versailles, MO 65084 $ 92,906.08

20 Kenyon Aeschbacher Versailles, MO 65084 $ 82,319.00

21 J C Stevens Versailles, MO 65084 $ 76,400.00

22 Adrian Hooper Versailles, MO 65084 $ 71,494.86

23 Jerry W Gerlt Versailles, MO 65084 $ 68,242.80

24 Irvin Gerlt Versailles, MO 65084 $ 65,764.88

25 Gerald R Weaver Versailles, MO 65084 $ 62,677.86

26 Thomas Wilhelm Versailles, MO 65084 $ 55,306.87

27 Nelson Rouse Versailles, MO 65084 $ 54,900.39

28 Rodney Schad Versailles, MO 65084 $ 53,940.11

29 George Rouse Versailles, MO 65084 $ 51,508.00

30 Jack D Hutchison Versailles, MO 65084 $ 46,703.54

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SCHEDULE A (FEC Form 3)

Vicky Hartzler for Congress

Edward Dement Sikeston MO 63801-5161 Farmer 09 30 2012 Transaction ID : 21004.C10533 [$]200.00

[emphasis added]

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SCHEDULE A (FEC Form 3)

Vicky Hartzler for Congress

Charles Jennings Sikeston MO 63801 Farmer 09 10 2012 Transaction ID : 21004.C10334 [$]500.00

[emphasis added]

EWG Farm Subsidy Database

Subsidy Recipients 1 to 30 of 1,476 in zipcode 63801

Recipients in this zipcode received $181,886,096 from 1995-2006

1 Missouri Delta Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 25,280,577.78

2 Parker Brothers Farm Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 6,768,606.24

3 Pearson Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 6,082,406.92

4 Rick Towery Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 3,131,449.29

5 Jennings Planting Co Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 3,120,689.55

6 Triple D Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 2,951,226.30

7 Triangle Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 2,695,092.92

8 Douglas A Scott Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 2,069,546.50

9 Circle N Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,803,027.58

10 Gaylon Maurice Lawrence Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,783,360.18

11 United Ridge Farms Inc Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,739,460.35

12 Edward E Dement Farms Inc Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,702,869.29

13 Dyer And Kathleen Garner Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,686,698.04

14 Ben Hunter Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,680,599.70

15 H Double J Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,673,146.34

16 Herbert Schuerenberg Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,625,899.99

17 Mcgarity Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,622,510.80

18 Terry W Manes Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,538,824.42

19 John C Engram Farms Inc Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,527,153.72

20 Dement Farms Partnership Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,487,468.68

21 David Lape Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,473,461.95

22 Dame Land Co Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,441,971.94

23 John Byrd Farms Inc Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,396,808.19

24 Jennings Bros Inc Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,378,459.91

25 Plucknett Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,346,993.69

26 Malden Motel Inc Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,328,551.49

27 D G And G Inc Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,225,314.24

28 Whitten & Whitten Farms Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,212,338.76

29 Gardner & Gardner Inc Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,203,283.65

30 Kenny Wayne Bright Sikeston, MO 63801 $ 1,201,292.86

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SCHEDULE A (FEC Form 3)

Vicky Hartzler for Congress

Steve Droke Hornersville MO 63855 Farmer 09 10 2012 Transaction ID : 21004.C10345 [$]500.00

[emphasis added]

EWG Farm Subsidy Database

Subsidy Recipients 1 to 30 of 238 in zipcode 63855

Recipients in this zipcode received $41,122,187 from 1995-2006

1 Jamerson Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 5,353,937.56

2 Branum Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 2,842,873.13

3 Bond Rouse Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 2,339,682.93

4 Daniels Farm Partnership Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 2,201,125.50

5 Delta Z Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 2,135,047.05

6 Max Ray Moore Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 1,624,381.33

7 Moore And Moore Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 1,368,462.31

8 Steven Craig Droke Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 1,358,194.22

9 Davis Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 1,225,187.91

10 Marty Moore Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 1,022,110.32

11 M Jones Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 992,267.82

12 Cotton Plant Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 987,401.42

13 Schell Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 967,294.64

14 C V S Farms Inc Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 966,618.88

15 Ted Rouse Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 917,431.50

16 James Keating Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 802,758.99

17 Promise Land Farms Ptr Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 780,133.75

18 Droke Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 766,820.71

19 Robert G Ketchum Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 759,921.87

20 R D Lea Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 724,588.81

21 Aaron Reed Jamerson Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 696,300.16

22 Buford Stacks Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 637,960.97

23 Lea Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 628,901.52

24 Worrell Farms – Deleted Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 620,305.24

25 Johnny Keith Scott Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 584,828.04

26 Keating Farms Partnership Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 577,345.67

27 Jimmie Wilkins Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 471,240.63

28 Ketchum Farms Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 445,863.49

29 Larry Conley Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 441,562.79

30 K Bond Rouse Hornersville, MO 63855 $ 416,919.76

And to think, the republican controlled House of Representatives couldn’t quite bring themselves to the point of moving and passing the farm bill:

House GOP punts on farm bill

By Alan Silverleib, CNN Congressional Producer

updated 4:42 PM EDT, Thu September 20, 2012

(CNN) — House Republican leaders announced Thursday they will not take action on a new farm bill until after the November elections — a sign of sharp internal GOP divisions on a critical political issue for many members of Congress.

“We will deal with the farm bill after the election,” said Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. “The current situation that we face is we’ve got people who believe there’s not enough reform in the farm bill that came out of (the House Agriculture) committee, (and) we’ve got others who believe that there’s too much reform in the bill that came out of the committee.”

Boehner indicated GOP leaders do not believe they currently have the votes to pass either a short-term extension or a more comprehensive five-year measure.

The current five-year law establishing various levels of federal support for farmers and ranchers — now struggling with drought in many parts of the country — expires September 30….

One of the books that shaped my outlook and the person I eventually became was Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugnam. A lot of people list that book as one of those that shaped them, but I have yet to meet a person who was affected by it in the same way I was, and by the same minor character. Indeed, many people don’t even remember the character Fanny Price. But she is the character I remember best…

Then one morning when he was going out, the concierge called out to him that there was a letter. Nobody wrote to him but his Aunt Louisa and sometimes Hayward, and this was a handwriting he did not know. The letter was as follows:

Please come at once when you get this. I couldn’t put up with it any more. Please come yourself. I can’t bear the thought that anyone else should touch me. I want you to have everything.

F. Price

I have not had anything to eat for three days.

Philip felt on a sudden sick with fear. He hurried to the house in which she lived. He was astonished that she was in Paris at all. He had not seen her for months and imagined she had long since returned to England. When he arrived he asked the concierge whether she was in.

“Yes, I’ve not seen her go out for two days.”

Philip ran upstairs and knocked at the door. There was no reply. He called her name. The door was locked, and on bending down he found the key was in the lock…

“Oh, my God, I hope she hasn’t done something awful,” he cried aloud.

He ran down and told the porter that she was certainly in the room. He had had a letter from her and feared a terrible accident. He suggested breaking open the door. The porter, who had been sullen and disinclined to listen, became alarmed; he could not take the responsibility of breaking into the room; they must go for the commissaire de police. They walked together to the bureau, and then they fetched a locksmith. Philip found that Miss Price had not paid the last quarter’s rent: on New Year’s Day she had not given the concierge the present which old-established custom led him to regard as a right. The four of them went upstairs, and they knocked again at the door. There was no reply. The locksmith set to work, and at last they entered the room. Philip gave a cry and instinctively covered his eyes with his hands. The wretched woman was hanging with a rope round her neck, which she had tied to a hook in the ceiling fixed by some previous tenant to hold up the curtains of the bed. She had moved her own little bed out of the way and had stood on a chair, which had been kicked away. it was lying on its side on the floor. They cut her down. The body was quite cold…

…The story which Philip made out in one way and another was terrible. One of the grievances of the women-students was that Fanny Price would never share their gay meals in restaurants, and the reason was obvious: she had been oppressed by dire poverty. He remembered the luncheon they had eaten together when first he came to Paris and the ghoulish appetite which had disgusted him: he realised now that she ate in that manner because she was ravenous. The concierge told him what her food had consisted of. A bottle of milk was left for her every day and she brought in her own loaf of bread; she ate half the loaf and drank half the milk at mid-day when she came back from the school, and consumed the rest in the evening. It was the same day after day. Philip thought with anguish of what she must have endured. She had never given anyone to understand that she was poorer than the rest, but it was clear that her money had been coming to an end, and at last she could not afford to come any more to the studio. The little room was almost bare of furniture, and there were no other clothes than the shabby brown dress she had always worn. Philip searched among her things for the address of some friend with whom he could communicate. He found a piece of paper on which his own name was written a score of times. It gave him a peculiar shock. He supposed it was true that she had loved him; he thought of the emaciated body, in the brown dress, hanging from the nail in the ceiling; and he shuddered. But if she had cared for him why did she not let him help her? He would so gladly have done all he could. He felt remorseful because he had refused to see that she looked upon him with any particular feeling, and now these words in her letter were infinitely pathetic: I can’t bear the thought that anyone else should touch me. She had died of starvation.

That scene from that book haunted me when I read it the first time at about 13 or 14, and it never stopped haunting me. Because Somerset Maugham painted that image in my young mind all those years ago, I have never stopped living by the dictum “feed the hungry.” So far as I am concerned, that is a commandment that must not be broken.

Hunger is not a motivator. Hunger is a scourge. A scourge for which there is no excuse in this country. When I read in today’s New York Times, while reaching for a second Biscotti, that hunger in the United States is at the highest point it has been since the Department of Agriculture started indexing the food security of Americans in 1995, according to a report released today.

The number of Americans who lacked reliable access to sufficient food shot up last year to its highest point since the government began surveying in 1995, the Agriculture Department reported on Monday.

In its annual report on hunger, the department said that 17 million American households, or 14.6 percent of the total, “had difficulty putting enough food on the table at times during the year.” That was an increase from 13 million households, or 11.1 percent, the previous year.

The results provided a more human sense of the costs of a recession that has officially ended but continues to take a daily toll on households; it describes the plight not of a faceless General Motors or A.I.G. but of families with too little food on their children’s plates.

Indeed, while children are usually shielded from the worst effects of deprivation, many more were affected last year than the year before. The number of households in which both adults and children experienced “very low food security” rose by more than half, to 506,000 in 2008 from 323,000 in 2007, according to the report.

Overall, one-third of all the families that are affected by hunger, or 6.7 million households, were classified as having very low food security, meaning that members of the household had too little to eat or saw their eating habits disrupted during 2008. That was 2 million households more than in 2007.

Unconscionable.

There is something deeply, fundamentally wrong when so many people in this, the richest nation in the world, have so little security in the knowledge of where their next meal is coming from.

Crossposted from They Gave Us a Republic  

In Catch-22, Major Major’s father was a wealthy alfalfa farmer who had gotten rich by having the government pay him not to grow alfalfa and who used his money to buy more land, with the result that he “soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county.” (p.86)

The parallel may not be exact but consider: pork and poultry CAFOs are asking the USDA to buy up–to the tune of $75 million in the last six months–the extra meat they’re producing that they can’t sell. Meanwhile, the USDA is guaranteeing loans to pork and poultry producers who want to build new CAFOs or expand existing ones.

Major Major’s father would approve. True, CAFOs aren’t getting paid not to raise hogs, but they are getting paid to raise hogs nobody wants–and getting paid to raise even more hogs nobody wants. Similar principle.

And while the USDA is buying up their excess product–even as it helps them to overproduce even more–the little guy keeps getting squeezed. He’s not getting these subsidies. Oh well, who cares, right?

If you care, then know that The Missouri Rural Crisis Center is getting the word out about the dodge that the CAFOs have going on and is urging Missourians to sign on to a letter to Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack.

If Vilsack were really on top of the job, he would have noticed and rectified this double dipping already, but it’s our job to nudge him in the right direction.

Go. Sign.