More information and maybe a stray fact or two re: the possibly prematurely announced death of CRP.
More than semantics here. The source you provide (Farm Bureau) has been previously widely cited as a bad actor on this forum - yes? I am as shocked as you are that the Farm Bureau would advocate for higher payments, as any good lobby would. Even as they note in the source you provide that "individual contract data is not available" for comparison purposes. Meaning - they cherry picked their data. Furthermore, you can't compare the economics of good bottom ground soil productivity to that of marginal soils (as targeted by CRP) and conclude that payments are inadequate.
We've heard widely here that farmers are walking away from CRP in droves. This is, to date, an entirely unsupported assertion (excluding the FB lobby "data"). The proof is in the pudding - has CRP money been left on the table in significant amounts? That would be a simple yes or no, unless one has an axe to grind. Looking for facts here, not "positions".
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“ Even as they note in the source you provide that "individual contract data is not available" for comparison purposes. Meaning - they cherry picked their data.”
No, it doesn’t mean that at all.
This has gotten absurd.
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................2.5 million acres were left on the table in 2020
By Max Fisher, Vice President of Economics and Government Relations The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released the 2020 county average cash rental rates for non-irrigated cropland that will serve as the starting point for calculating rental rate offers for this year’s Conservation Reserve...
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USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program is one of the largest federally administered private land retirement programs. Under CRP, in exchange for annual rental payments ranging from $10 per acre to nearly $300 per acre, farmers and landowners voluntarily remove environmentally sensitive land from...
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Incomplete data is cherry picked information in my lexicon, but if you are more comfortable with the term "flawed" - OK, we'll go with that. Can you at least recognize that the Farm Bureau just possibly might have an axe to grind?
I, like you, would personally benefit from higher CRP "rental" rates (although not as much as Bill Gates most likely would). But what would truly be absurd would be the reliance on patently biased and entirely unsupported (and very self serving) assertions to form conclusions that the facts simply do not support. Farmers are not economically clueless.
So, again - how much CRP money is actually being declined, and what percentage of the total does that represent? Lets identify and attack real problems, and not waste our attention and energy on possibly self serving opinions or pink paint scares.