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The whole "law," is a perfect example of what legislators feel they need, so that they can prove they are useful --- that is, produce laws like bumper bolts off an assembly line --- but, the motivation for production is not, demand.

This "law" is not in demand by the people of the fifty states.

However, this "law" is most definitely in demand by a "major interest." And that "interest" would be Wall Street.

It is investors whose strategy it is, to use government funds for the purpose of acquiring farmlands ... under the color of acquiring the whole, such farmlands and more surrounding lands and other lands in the name of the environment.

Why do investors want these lands (at taxpayers' expense)?

Because investors see a wilting of industrial development for which they wish to subsitute alternative growth in which to appreciate capital gains.

Unfortunately, too many a significant bunch of those on "the right," are lock-step with those on "the left:" environmentalist wackos, when it comes to this "legislation."

The purpose of such investors is to develop corporate farming like you have never seen.

Supposedly government is going to buy the land for the sake of nature.

Meanwhile, out of the public eye, deals will be made for large-scale contract farming. So for example, twenty farmers and ranchers give up their land; the government installs itself; then the government requests bids to farm (and / or mine), not all, but significant portions of the land.

The state universities who are want to establish agricultural and environmental stations in greater abundance, along with many small farm community towns, are liking the idea for the increased jobs opportunities.

The unions are going to go for it, because it means replacing private employment with state-approved townies who are also "politically correct." That's right, the farmers are out and the diversity-indoctrinated are in.

That is what this "law" is all about: New-Age Corporate Farming.

The theory is that such large-scale management will make efficient, what is supposedly an out-of-date art: family farms.

Oh to be sure, the government and C.A.R.A. supporters will point to portions of land in their propaganda, which are not farm-able nor mine-able, and their minions will nod, "Ya see! 'It's about the environment!"

But such extraneous lands are fluff, in contrast to the prime rib, that is, prime real estate which is sought by the likes of Archer Daniels Midland and other land reinvestment trusts, such as those by which the Kennedys, Rockefellors, et al, can afford their "limousine liberals'" limousines.