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re: Why isn't Louisiana an agricultural powerhouse?
Posted on 1/19/22 at 9:19 pm to HighlyFavoredTiger
Posted on 1/19/22 at 9:19 pm to HighlyFavoredTiger
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he said that his dad and grandpa had got offers through the area county extension office to receive government payments to NOT plant certain crops. I don’t know how much of that goes on now but it apparently paid more than getting up at 4:30 and heading to the fields to ride a tractor all day.
It happens a lot. It's the Fed's that pay farmers not to plant.
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Posted on 1/19/22 at 9:40 pm to La Place Mike
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It's the Fed's that pay farmers not to plant.
Yeah, because farmers voluntarily sign up land that probably should have never been farmed to begin with.
It always amazes me how federal programs like CRP and WRP get bad raps because people don't understand how they work.
FedGov isn't holding a gun to anyone's head and telling them not to farm that land. It's quite the contrary--those farmers and landowners come knocking on the door wanting to take that land out of production.
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