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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Jen[/i] [br]Last year, organic vegetable famer Jack Hedin rented 25 acres on two corn farms to plant watermelons, tomatoes, and vegetables. What he discovered—to the tune of $8,771 in fines—was that it’s illegal to grow fruit and veg on acres set aside for corn, he relates in his editorial in The New York Times. Turns out, the Farm Bill-mandated ban on growing fruits and vegetables in soil the government terms “base acres,” or land set aside for the exclusive planting of corn, wheat, oats, barley, sorghum, cotton, rice, soybeans, and canola or other oilseed crops, left many of us appalled—and then confused. Because it turns out that the ban—underscored by $25,000 in fines—is actually backed by the fruit and vegetable lobby, not the corn lobby. Huh? http://www.plentymag.com/blogs/ecoeats/ Jen [green]Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9[/green] The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.