This is, of course, a political thread that will be deleted shortly.
I am an absentee landlord and former CRP beneficiary. We sold our land this year, and the new owner is taking it out of CRP. Over the years, we've received much more in CRP rent than we would have had we rented it out. That said, I think that all government programs should be evaluated against their goals: What were the program's goals, did it achieve them, and was it the most cost-effective way of doing it? This should apply to ethanol subsidies, school lunch programs, food stamps and wars fought on the other side of the world. It should apply to farm programs as well.
If we look at CRP, its intended goal was grain price stabilization (by reducing crop production) and land conservation (by planting erodible land to grass). There's no doubt it achieved both goals, but at what cost? It is an expensive program, costing the taxpayers almost two billion dollars per year. In today's budget climate, it is a difficult program to justify. Furthermore, because of the long lease terms, even if it was cut off today, we'll still be paying for it through 2020. But it is, like the rest of the farm program, hugely popular on both sides of the political fence and unlikely to disappear any time soon.
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