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03/13/13, 06:15 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: missouri
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New Hoop House Pics! Grant Approved!
Final cost $6,950. Grant will pay $5,550. For a total of $1400. I should have a check in two weeks. By the way they are funded again and people are able to apply again. randy
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03/13/13, 06:16 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: missouri
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The sides on the left and right crank up to about 7 feet to allow ventilation.
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03/13/13, 06:45 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Kentucky
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where do we apply? nice looking setup
I'd ask the requirements but I'll save you the typing and if you could just point us in the right directions thank you 
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ex-suburbanite, homesteading in Kentucky on 6 acres, learning as I go.
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03/13/13, 07:06 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Michigan's thumb
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Lovely! We have mini hoop house and love having greens in the middle of winter.
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03/13/13, 09:06 PM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Central New York State
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Congratulations! What grant program did you use and what was the timeframe for approval?
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03/13/13, 09:34 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Nice! Whachya gonna grow and how do you plan to market it to pay back the small loan?
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03/13/13, 09:53 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: missouri
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Hoop House Grant
I applied at the Resource Conservation Service. Which is federal. i know that it is in several states. In missouri it used to be call the soil conservation service. It is listed in the US Dept of Agriculture.
Hoop House Grant
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03/14/13, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Wyoming
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Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) just about every county in the nation has an NRCS office in it... For now any way..... Interested folks should stop in and they should be able to direct you in the right direction.
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03/15/13, 07:20 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Northern NY
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Taxpayer dollars used to fund a private enterprise. No thanks.
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03/15/13, 08:23 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: MO
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I imagine he's paid taxes?
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03/15/13, 10:16 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SW Michigan
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Not for Michiganders....
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03/15/13, 10:19 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: West By God Virginnie
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Nice house.... I'd be all over a grant for one too if I had a place that could get enough sun in a day.. (In a holler) ... I'd sure love to get some of my tax dollars back...
I'm trying to figure out what was so expensive? The metal, or the plastic? Just sounds like a lot of money for something that looks so minimal material wise..
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03/15/13, 03:04 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Indiana, USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bret4207
Taxpayer dollars used to fund a private enterprise. No thanks.
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If you live on a farm, guess how you likely got electricity connected to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
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03/15/13, 11:05 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: missouri
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cost?
The grant required it to be a "kit" from a approved vendor. Combination stimulus and trying to help people start a business or just promote buying local. I know that i have paid a lot of taxes every year, so i don't feel like its a hand out.
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03/16/13, 07:10 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Missouri Ozarks
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Very nice Randy, we are putting up a couple more greenhouses ourselves but something that big would be really nice. Would you be willing to share your plans for it and the commercial vendor you used?
I am also curious if the grant covered things like shade cloth, electric, plumbing, etc.
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03/16/13, 07:13 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Northern NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by plowjockey
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That was a public works project that covered entire populations, not "free money" from the gov't, or rather from your fellow taxpayers for an individual. If people would stop putting their hand out for "free money" all of us would be in better financial shape because we'd have more money in our paychecks that now goes to pay the taxes politicians use for bribe money for votes.
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03/16/13, 07:38 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Skyline drive
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Bret that will never work. Trying to get people to turn down money flowing back will just divert it to someone else. The money flow needs to be stoped coming into the governement. Once they have it, its too late!
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03/16/13, 11:31 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Indiana, USA
Posts: 12,674
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bret4207
That was a public works project that covered entire populations, not "free money" from the gov't, or rather from your fellow taxpayers for an individual. If people would stop putting their hand out for "free money" all of us would be in better financial shape because we'd have more money in our paychecks that now goes to pay the taxes politicians use for bribe money for votes.
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LOL
Since when, is farming, not a private enterprise, which at that time, was 100% ran by "individuals"?
The REA spent taxpayer money, to improve the business operation of farmers, who really didn't need electricity, but would certainly benefit from it.
Exactly like the hoop house program.
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03/16/13, 11:51 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Oregon
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Nice hoop house.
My husband just poured a concrete manure collector from someone who received a $6,500 grant from the USDA for her horse manure. She said it was a lot of paperwork but nothing terrible.
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03/16/13, 12:23 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Saint Albans, Maine
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I have been under the impression that unless you are a 501c(3) or some such non-profit organization and are a private citizen any money you receive from a grant is considered income and has to be reported on your income tax return. A grant simply means you do not have to pay the money back... it is not a loan but it is income and has to be reported as such. It is not "free" money.
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