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by delbel 2839 days ago
these aren't "farmers" these are big agricultural 4000 acres mega-farms. they took out huge loans and make ridiculous purchases ($400k tractors) and relied on pie in the sky subsidizes, some are to actually not to farm. if you have an oxygen machine and your power company threatens to turn it off, you can get a doctor's note to prevent this. They specifically go through this with you during collection and refer you to the program, which is a federal grant and state program. I helped my neighbor do this who is on an oxygen machine. She even got solar installed "just in case the rid went down"