[JustaDumbBlonde]

"...tell them to grow stuff this year"

That's right. Let's tell them to grow something. What should we tell them to grow? How do we make them do so? What if they ignore our demands?

[PapaBear3625]

What I said was "(2) any acreage we’re paying farmers NOT to grow on, tell them to grow stuff this year"

Translated into simpler English: this year, if we are paying farmers to NOT grow crops, then eliminate those payments. The farmers may choose to grow crops and sell them, in order to make money to make up for the eliminated farm subsidies

[Balding_Eagle]

That's right. Let's tell them to grow something. What should we tell them to grow? How do we make them do so? What if they ignore our demands?

What's ironic about many of the replies, is that they had to stop eating their big breakfast to type!