In the 80s, a lot of FmHA borrowers with productive land were talked into the CRP program when the borrower was in default. Sell the livestock, enroll in CRP cuz the payment could go to the lender to cover the loan, and the farmer works an off-farm job. Rolling ground was declared HEL, flat sand could always be included as HEL due to "wind erosion".
Result? lots of good acreage taken out of production, switchgrass seeded with gov help turned into weeds, blowing more weed seed across the country to increase the weed pressure on the cultivated acres.
Foreclosed farms were mandated to be turned over by FmHA to US F&W- more weed farms. Wetlands were recreated by busting tiles that gov paid for in the 50s. In "85 I rented a nearby farm that was half tillable- other half cattail swamp. F&W got it, broke the tiles, let it grow up in brush. It"s next to 40 acres of Sportsmen Club land, my 30 acres of cattails, but they never get enough, even if it can"t raise a deer or two ducks. How many people were fed from that farm? Most farms here are +- 70% tillable, north central MN, under 50%. How much land do the huggers need to control from the ones who OWN it?
People starve for food, while good land goes to waste. Granted, there are many acres that should not be farmed, but CRP has been a boondoggle in many ways. Good intentions, lousy execution. It"s called "guv program".
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