USDA Up To More Dirty Tricks

The USDA is busy sending out its Agricultural Survey attempting to elicit from unwary property owners, information regarding any agricultural production or livestock or poultry (this can be virtually ANY crop, animal or bird) that you may own and goes on to ask how much monetary value is placed on produce or the sale of animal/poultry products. The [survey] also mentions that any one who produces and sells more than $1,000 per year is asked to voluntarily supply this information to the government. $1,000 a year is such a paltry amount and is significant in the fact that this amount is so low as to encompass virtually anything you might wish to grow and produce even for your own use.

It would be virtually impossible for the federal government to confiscate food sources in the event they decide they must, unless they know first hand where that source is located and how much of it is there.

This is a voluntary survey and is not a [census]. Survey’s are voluntary, the census taken every ten years to do a head count of our population is not.

In a cleverly worded promotion on the USDA website:

“The 2012 census will be conducted late in 2012 and into 2013 to reflect 2012 farming activities. It is the voice of agriculture:”

Any person with estimated or expected annual sales of agricultural products of at least $1,000 is considered a producer and should be counted. (emphasis mine)

Please note the word [should]. “Should” is not the same as “has to be”, “must be”, “is required to”. Also note that there is no specified code citing or regulation designation; that’s because there isn’t one. Agriculture is non-positive code & title #7, and cannot be codified into public law as it is not in the enumerated powers within the constitution given to the federal government.

Therefore, anything regarding agriculture coming from the federal government via one of its corporate federal agencies can only be voluntary. That which is voluntary on the federal level cannot be made mandatory in the states.

Even if USDA has or will write such a code or regulation, there is no underlying authority for enforcement. Congress cannot delegate to one of its autonomous corporations power it does not possess itself.