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Dan-IA

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I heard on the radio something quite different than the report on here yesterday. I was told that lots of acres are coming out of CRP, yes, but you have to pay back the money with interest plus a penalty. But even that is not stopping people from pulling it out on the first, there's lots of people planning to.

I hate to breed disinformation, but that's what I best think I remember from the radio today shortly before noon.
 
That's true,but there was supposed to be a critical feed use program that would allow one time haying or grazing on CRP acres this year for a fee of $75 per CRP contract. The Seirra club and other tree huggers filed suit in Washington state to get it stopped. A judge put a halt on it,but then it was reversed. The reversal though,only allows participation if you were signed up before the temporary halt occured.
 
Dan, I think that is fair tho. People have always had that oppertunity to buy their way out of the program, and if their land is good enough & prices are high enough, sounds like a good thing for all to me.

I don't like the govt giving people both ends of a program - money to go into a 10 year program, then get out of it for free.

Those not in the program get no check, & get their crop prices hurt from those able to collect govt money plus get their land back penalty free.

Seems like the govt is doing it right this time around.

--->Paul
 
You are getting two issues confused. You could always buy out a CRP contract if you paid back the payments already received. This haying issue is different. It allows you to make hay this year, and still receive the yearly payment. Frankly, I think that is crap, because making first cutting hay at this time of year will give you nothing but crap. Plus, they should forego this year's payment. It's not hay- it is brush, but if cattle are desperate enough, they can survive on it with enough soy or molasses. Regarding the buyout provision- my son bought 10 acres of land a few years ago for a building site, had to pay back x years of CRP for the two acres where he put the house. Same provision is available now for those wanting to opt out of the CRP program and convert back to farming the land before the contract is up.
 
The report you hear is disinformation. As stated to get out of the program you have to buy your way out.

Some left wing wackos claim the "high price" of corn due to ethanol is enticing farmers to pull out of the program and put erodable land back into production. However they never site numbers or acres and ignore the high price of inputs and the buyout cost that would hinder such action. But it makes good press to "prove" how ethanol is going to destroy the country.
 
Report I heard today was that it was 13,500 acres that had been cashed out of CRP by paying back the CRP payments so far this year.

Gerald J.
 
Report I heard today was that it was 13,500 acres that had been cashed out of CRP by paying back the CRP payments so far this year.

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Did they happen to say how much went back into production and how much was turned into urban housing?
 
6 years ago about 90% of our row crop land was in CRP, now it is zero. (Central Missouri). We didn't take it out early, or pay a penalty, the contracts just expired. The new CRP rules and the need to compete on a national basic just made our ground ineligible. We are now making 3 or 4 times the profit that we did with CRP. Didn't do it on purpose, it just happened.

We are small potatoes, only had about 200 acres in.


Gene
 
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