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N.W. Illinois | Just Google "farmer Rives Neblet delta"
"For lunch, Stolle steered us to Chamoun's Rest Haven, a family-owned restaurant where Lebanese kibbie and cabbage rolls share the menu with fried catfish, peach cobbler, and coconut pie. We met Rives Neblett, a cotton farmer and retired lawyer who lives in nearby Shelby, Mississippi.
"Our agricultural economy is booming," he said. "But in a boom-and-bust cycle, a farmer's equity could be wiped out in a year."
Neblett has a duck club, a hunting lodge, a farm, and he owns a condo in Memphis. His wife was a queen of Cotton Carnival several years back. He has been a Democrat since his days at Ole Miss in the 1960s."
There is lots more to read about old man Rives
"But the farmers say they would not be able to survive without their subsidies. “I am not getting rich on subsidies,” said G. Rives Neblett, a Shelby lawyer and businessman whose family has farmed here for three generations. Farms in which Neblett holds an interest have received about $3 million in federal payments since 2001.
“I understand the disparity and desperately wish there was something we could do about it,” he said. “But without the safety net of subsidies for prices and bad weather, we would have no more agriculture in the Delta, and agriculture is all we’ve got left.”
Edited by mounder 12/31/2018 15:45
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