From Brendan Eales
There is a similar story to Feedback’s item about grants for not raising pigs
(27 May)
in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
In the version there, I think it was Major Major’s father who grew rich
through the US Farm Administration policy of paying farmers not to grow alfalfa.
He eventually bought all the surrounding farms so he could not grow more alfalfa
than any other farmer in the area.
He was well known and respected for his ability to not grow alfalfa. As I
recall, he unfortunately went bankrupt eventually through trying to branch into
not growing tobacco.
Bulimba, Queensland
