Posted on 05/26/2023 7:34:10 AM PDT by CFW
The federal government paid Wyoming farmers $5.5 million in 2022 not to farm certain land plots, a significant leap from the 2021 grant of $3.4 million.
Industry experts credit changing demands for food and skyrocketing fuel and equipment prices in 2022 for Wyoming farmers’ growing interest in the federal Conservation Reserve Program.
The program’s goal is to preserve fragile land plots or other environmentally sensitive areas from the rigor of farming by letting farmers receive federal “rent” payments to leave the land alone for a decade. They also get cost-share payments for conservation startup costs, like ground-cover seeds.
Farmers will sign up for the Conservation Reserve Program if it looks more lucrative than farming. They’ll generally avoid it if they think it will be less lucrative.
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Driving down the supply side of the inflation equation.
All the way back into 1960s my grandfather owned a 400 acre in Florida, the government paid him to take the farm out of agriculture production and plant pine trees on it.
Bribery. The farmers are GOP. Take away ethanol subsidies and watch Iowa go blue.
Pity they don’t honor the 10th Amendment and end all of these programs.
Do they comp you at their casino?
I am a farmer and yes I have some CRP ground. Usually it is the waterways or the edge of the ditch where they want a buffer or filter strip to keep fertilizer and herbicides from getting into the surface water.
No, LOL. I have only been there once when I was a kid. Back in the 1970s. Dad showed me where the house and barn used to be. We fished in Tonawanda Creek.
They gave my parents “fair market value” for their farm. My father always thought he was not paid enough because parts of the farm land had top soil 5-6’ deep of black sandy loam.
Therefore, you could grow a lot more on that land than others. That the farm was worth more because of that.
Their land backed up to one of the creeks that ran into the swamp land.
They bought another farm nearby but sold that after a few years and moved to Ithaca. Where he got into the trucking industry. Hauling dry Portland cement for a concrete company.
Radar O’Reilly talked about getting money from the government to not grow something in After MASH ,LOL
“Radar O’Reilly talked about getting money from the government to not grow something in After MASH ,LOL”
I’d forgotten about that episode. LOL! I loved Radar! The only one of the bunch with any sense.
I loved how Radar was smuggling a Jeep back home, one part at a time.
Leave the land alone for a decade.
After the get the head count done they will know where to give land and housing to all the 5 million plus illegals.
I can remember this in the 60s also. Friends of ours had a large farm...part of an estate...which they weren’t farming anyways. They collected for years....NYS
I’ve got a spade and a pick-axe
And a hundred miles square of land to churn about
My old horse is weary but sincerely
I believe that he can pull a plough
Well I’ve moved into the jungle of the agriculture rumble,
To grow my own food
And I’ll dig and plough and scrape the weeds
Till I succeed in seeing cabbage growing through
Now I’m a farmer, and I’m digging, digging, digging, digging, digging
Now I’m a farmer, and I’m digging, digging, digging, digging, digging
It’s alarming how charming it is to be a-farming
How calming and balming the effect of the air
Well, I farmed for a year and grew a crop of corn
That stretched as far as the eye can see
That’s a whole lot of cornflakes,
Near enough to feed New York till 1973
Cultivation is my station and the nation
Buys my corn from me immediately
And holding sixty thousand bucks, I watch as dumper trucks
Tip New York’s corn flakes in the sea
Now I’m a farmer, and I’m digging, digging, digging, digging, digging
Now I’m a farmer, and I’m digging, digging, digging, digging, digging
It’s alarming how charming it is to be a-farming
How calming and balming the effect of the air
Now look here son
The right thing to say
Isn’t necessarily what you want to say
The right thing to do
Isn’t necessarily what you want to do
The right things to grow
Ain’t necessarily what you want to grow
Your own happiness
Doesn’t necessarily teach you what you want to know
Well I’m suntanned and deep, so’s the horse
And my hands are deeply grained
Old horse is a-grazing, it’s amazing
Just how lazily he took the strain
Well my pick and spade are rusty,
Because I’m paid on trust to leave my square of cornfield bare
It’s alarming how charming it is to be a-farming
How calming and balming the effect of the air
When you grow what I grow
Tomatoes, potatoes, stew, eggplants...
Potatoes, tomatoes...gourds
-The Who (Now I’m A Farmer)
There is a Johnny Cash song about tht.
At the feed store…
“Welp, I’ve decided to not grow wheat this year. Not growing wheat should make for a profitable not -growing season. What’re you fellas not growing this year??”
“I’m not growing corn again this year.”
“I’m switching to a 10 year dont-grow-for-a-decade conservation payment!”
“Wait. The government will pay you and you don’t have to file paperwork every year???”
“Yep. I’ll be down in the Cayman Islands until 2033 not growing anything.”
For the record, I was never paid by the government to refrain from making software in order to keep the software supply artificially low so that my fellow hard working family programmers could stay in business.
I would happily farm that extra 30ft next to the ditch if you city folks would shut your pie hole when a little pig poo get in the creek.
There is farming in Wyoming? Who knew? I thought it all looked like Jackson Hole. /s
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