I should have mentioned that I did not get into the program. I bought this place from my F-I-L 2 1/2 years ago. He put it in in 1998 or so. He never met a gov't program he didn't like. This place was getting something like $26,000 between CRP, CREP, and MFL. He was getting $3166 per year on these acres when he put it in. It'll never be croppable ground, but it would be bang-up pasture ground.
I'm really torn up about this. I had it my head that I was gonna farm this place any way I could to keep it and minimize my gov't handouts. BUT $10,500 would buy 2 1/2 months worth of corn for my 8300 laying hens. If I get it out and rent it to a friend to put cattle in it (he rents my other pastures already for $15 per head per month), It's only $2500 a year or so, depending on number of head and number of months it's viable.
I hate these programs. They're made for BTOs and wealthy landowners that would take the handout on hard-to-farm ground and pillage the rest of the place. But, like others said - It's going to someone, might as well be me.
There was one program I would have jumped at, but it ran out of money last year - I don't know what it was called, but they were allowing CRP ground to come out 2 years early if rented to a young farmer. The owner would get his CRP payment and the young farmer would get the ground to rent. Sure wish it were still here... i gotta wait until fall 2015 for the "real" crop ground to come out. Wonder what they'll offer me to keep THAT in!
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