Posted by Iowawill on October 10, 2012 at 18:41:33 from (166.182.80.158):
In Reply to: CRP posted by Fullers Farmalls on October 10, 2012 at 10:46:34:
The CRP was a part of the 1988 farm bill called The Food Security Act as you have probably learned. In it's first years it was aimed at retiring land considered erodible and not suitable for continuous row-cropping. At least here in Iowa it worked fairly well, removing some poor land from production and adding some wildlife habitat. It was also partly aimed at propping up a difficult farm economy as others have said, but it wasn't much of a production control as most of the first land enrolled was not the most productive anyway. Later on CRP was expanded to include wetlands(WRP), border strips, etc. that did take some better land out of row-crop. In 1988, I worked with a couple of the land owners I farmed for in getting some field areas into CRP and it definitely added to the local pheasant population as well as improved my bottom line by eliminating some of the least productive acres. With corn/soybean/land prices what they currently are, many acres are coming back out into row-crop and I think that trend will continue.
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