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Green Acres Guy
Posted 2/8/2025 16:28 (#11094857 - in reply to #11094122)
Subject: RE: CRP poll, eliminate it or keep it?


Latimer, Iowa (north central)		The laws of supply and demand need to be considered. High school economics. If land is removed from CRP and cropped/grazed then there is more crop and thus prices go down. In the end there is no more dollars for the "young" farmers or the "communities" everyone claims to be all about supporting. That is, they claim to want to support until it is their turn to shop at the small town grocery, service station, hardware, and farm stores. Main streets are not dead because of CRP, they are dead because goods are available somewhere else at a lower acquisition cost, be that money or convivence, and that most consumers only care about their short term selves and not long term community benefits.

Buridan's bridge fallacy. The paradox of most of the statements in this thread need to be recognized.

I hate subsides as much as the next guy but eliminating CRP will not open up new opportunities for farmers. It likely would have a negative affect without the infusion of $$ that are not generated from the farmland, but instead generated from our taxrolls. There is only so much demand for crops and animals. More of corn and more cows does not translate to more $$ on our farms.

In general, yes there are exceptions, the land in CRP is not top quality. Low quality land does not lend itself to producing top yields at the lowest cost. Lowest cost production per bushel will win. An acre of corn that costs $500 an acre over land cost to produce, costs that regardless of if the land is good or bad. The good land will yield 250bpa and the poor land 150 bpa. Which do you (not you in particular Boone) think will give a opportunity for a person to start farming and which will put them at a competitive disadvantage? Do farmers like to farm crap land or good land, regardless of land cost? Just have to drive around and look at farmsteads and can tell how good the soil is in the area.
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