'Round here, CRP bids are around $90 an acre. avrage rent for this township in 2011 was %203 an acre for crop land. Lot of renting farmers encouraged their landlord to get into CRP, got rid of the miserable to farm, often total crop loss land out of the picture - good for the renter as well as the landlord. Lot of landlords are a little bent up at how low the CRP payments are, there ain't anyone getting rich off the govt CRP payments around here!!!!
As to livestock producers being as pure as the driven snow - I say with a smile on my face; You're full of it!!! :)
Many a cattle and hog producer has said, why be stupid enough to grow corn in the 1970s-2000 when you can buy corn cheaper than you can grow it? And laughed all the way to the bank with their meat & milk checks, while corn was under $2.00 thanks to the govt. Grain farmers got a pitance from the govt to hang on, all the livestock & dairy folks got the big bucks in the form of cheap grains to feed their critters.
Things are a little more balanced out now, grain prices are competing on a global playfield and the livestock boys finally have to play on a level playing field, instead of living off the cheap corn & laughing all the way to the bank.
I think you seriously have that all messed up?
But I'm still smiling, and I raise some beef as well as grains so think I have a pretty good grasp on a complex subject.
CRP is a good thing, but it sure isn't perfect, and while I have a lot of marginal land they encourage to be entered into it, I much prefer farming my land and haven't seriously considered getting into it.
There is room to make it a better program, but man, to pick on grain farmers, we spent decades losing money and you think the grain still wasn't cheap enough to feed your critters? And you got all the benifits of the govt grain programs as they led to the super cheap grain you got to buy????
Man, that takes some gall. How much blood do you think you deserve out of the turnip?
But again - just a friendly conversation, I'm smiling, and I have a sarcastic sense of humor so see my mssage for the friendly - if slightly disagreeing - message that it is. :)
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