California Farmers May Get Paid To Cut Plum Trees Down

Published Dec 14, 2001 6:20 pm : Updated Jan 31, 2009 5:56 pm

California farmers produce more prunes than they can sell, so the government is proposing to pay them to remove some trees. Farms would be paid $8.50 per tree under a program intended to destroy 20 thousand acres of plum trees. The tree removal program is going to cost 17 million dollars.