22 Million Acres of CRP, gone?

[hunter94]

Tom Vilsac (and Biden) being petitioned by farm groups to take out all CRP ground and put it into production due to food shortages in Ukrain.
this would kill pheasant hunting forever.

 

[Chestle]

You can't say the B word here. LOL!

But yes, I agree with you. No one is going to care about pheasants if people are starving.

Jeez...I may have to take up waterfowling again.

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

Would it pay to take it out?, can we grow spring wheat this late and this far south (kansas)? And who’s got time to farm it?

 

[Chestle]

They won't care if it pays or works. Something Must Be Done!

 

[BigRand]

Gonna really help with their clean air, clean water and capturing carbon. Watch they'll take it all out then turn around and the normal everyday person will be blamed even more for not reducing this country's carbon footprint.

 

[hunter94]

minor details, those border hoppers should be showing up any day now. lol

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

Is Russia going to make up the shortfall? They export as much as we do. They control the Black Sea or whatever it is. Most of Ukraine’s and Russia’s wheat goes to Turkey and maybe Egypt I think . If Turkey would impose sanctions I guess I could see the gamble

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

I guess we have to feed Ukraine but they have bigger things to worry about

 

[5 stand]

Hunter94. Do you have a link that says all CRP ?

U.S. farm groups urge sowing on protected land as war cuts off Ukraine supply

Farm groups are urging the U.S. Agriculture Department to allow farmers the ability to plant on acres set aside for conservation, to help fill the absence of Ukrainian corn, wheat and sunflower oil amid Russia's invasion of the country.

www.reuters.com

 

[hunter94]

so, they still get a CRP payment plus an inflated price for everything they grow and feed!
cha ching!!

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

Hunter94. Do you have a link that says all CRP ?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...-war-cuts-off-ukraine-supply-2022-03-23/[/URL

Out of the potus’s mouth on tv yesterday

 

[hunter94]

no, would have to look back , was 22 million acres, that was a number floated.

 

[benelli-banger]

I saw something about this on US Farm Report a week ago; another guest was asked about this, and he said it just can’t happen. What is occurring right now is called politics. Could laws be changed? Perhaps. But according to the guest expert, CRP can’t be capriciously canceled temporarily. Maybe PF will chime in. They probably drafted the language 37 years ago with emergency drought provisions built in, but not a wholesale cancelation. Maybe that guest was wrong. I’ll put my $ on this being politics.

 

[hunter94]

Currently, there are 22 million acres enrolled in CRP, and for the 2022 fiscal year, a statutory cap of 25.5 million acres is in place. As a result, there is the potential to provide farmers with access to millions of acres of cropland and pasture that would have otherwise remained idle in order to address both inflation and food security concerns.

“This should be a top priority,” Boozman writes. Notably, the European Union is considering a similar approach of allowing farmers to use fallow land to grow crops, counter supply disruptions, enhance food security, and reduce inflationary pressures following the invasion of Ukraine.

 

[hunter94]

and pasture that would have otherwise remained idle in order to address both inflation and food security concerns.

what the hell good is pasture land???

 

[hunter94]

next problem, the Chinese are buying up our farm ground. water, food, energy.

 

[Mosby]

If I can't go bird hunting, I'm selling everything and moving to the beach.