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<blockquote data-quote="trplnkl" data-source="post: 902283" data-attributes="member: 13254"><p>I am familiar with the CRP. A farmer puts a certain % of his land aside to grow a specific type of grass that is supposed to replenish minerals that are sucked out of the soil do to consistently planting the same crop (example cotton) year after year. The time required is 10 years I believe. During this time, nothing else can be planted on that land but that type of grass and they can not derive any other revenue off that land without repaying part of the money received for the program back to the government. The exception is they can lease the land out for hunting, but the "premium" is in question because the hunting is limited. No game feeders, hunter blinds , etc. can be constructed during the "set aside" time. The land can be sold and the program money transferred to the new owner that is bound by the same restrictions. </p><p> Around here a lot of older farmers use the CRP as a retirement fund. They put the maximum allowed acres in the program, lease the remained of their land to other farmers or sell it with the restrictions attached. They then, knowing they are done farming for a living, sell all of their equipment and move to town.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trplnkl, post: 902283, member: 13254"] I am familiar with the CRP. A farmer puts a certain % of his land aside to grow a specific type of grass that is supposed to replenish minerals that are sucked out of the soil do to consistently planting the same crop (example cotton) year after year. The time required is 10 years I believe. During this time, nothing else can be planted on that land but that type of grass and they can not derive any other revenue off that land without repaying part of the money received for the program back to the government. The exception is they can lease the land out for hunting, but the "premium" is in question because the hunting is limited. No game feeders, hunter blinds , etc. can be constructed during the "set aside" time. The land can be sold and the program money transferred to the new owner that is bound by the same restrictions. Around here a lot of older farmers use the CRP as a retirement fund. They put the maximum allowed acres in the program, lease the remained of their land to other farmers or sell it with the restrictions attached. They then, knowing they are done farming for a living, sell all of their equipment and move to town. [/QUOTE]
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