Posted by Mike (WA) on November 08, 2012 at 08:30:50 from (69.10.199.107):
In Reply to: Re: Farm subsidies posted by jackinok on November 08, 2012 at 07:59:39:
I disagree that there has never been a program that paid people not to plant. That is exactly what the Soil Bank Program of the late '50's was. Google it. To reduce the serious surpluses of commodities that were building up, guvment paid farmers not to plant on a portion of their land.
CRP is said to be a conservation program, but my wheat farmer friends tell me that a considerable amount of land went into it simply because the return was more attractive than land rents at the time- land that would have continued to be farmed without the program, and that the owners would sure like to get back into production if they could with today's high commodity prices. I'm told there was quite a bit of winking and smiling going on when decisions were being made on what land was "highly erodable."
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