Agriculture Needs More Women

[Kay/NC]

You and I farm in very different worlds. I understand your point about CRP.

My point is that, if you make the same mistake on evety acre of 5000 acres, it is a whopper!

[dairy mom]

You are talking about exactly is wrong with the CRP program.  It was not created so farmers could get money for difficult acres.  It was created to protect land.  But it morphed, as government programs tend to do, into a program that gets money for people who just don't want to be troubled with certain acreage anymore. 

Around here entire homesteads were put in the CRP when there no longer was family that wanted to farm it but they didn't want to sell it and they didn't rent it because they  could get more from the government at a time when rents were very low.

[manureseller]

I have issues with the CRP program as well.  Land that doesn't need to be in CRP is in CRP but land that SHOULD be in CRP doesn't qualify because the acres contract is full.  It's bogus!  Also, another issue that I have is the people that have it in CRP for hunting (those that buy the land and expect the gov't to pay for their hobby) and then CHARGE for people to hunt on their land that they are recieving a gov't payment for.  It's not right, I have no problems if someone has CRP and it's posted for no hunting etc and used for private hunting by the land owner, fine, go for it.  It's when you see the large tracts out in the western Dakotas with million dollar lodges on them catering to big city hunters AND getting a gov't payment that chaps me.