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   From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov   
      
   On 5/14/22 1:57 PM, DEFUNDPOLICEJOE wrote:   
   > The goal is to add 4 million acres of farmland to the Conservation Reserve   
   Program, which takes land out of production to blunt agriculture’s   
   environmental impac   
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   > The goal is to add 4 million acres of farmland to the Conservation Reserve   
   Program, which takes land out of production to blunt agriculture’s   
   environmental impact.   
   >   
   > The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would expand a   
   program that pays farmers to leave land fallow, part of a broader,   
   government-wide effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. The   
   new initiative will incentivize    
   farmers to take land out of production by raising rental rates and incentive   
   payments.   
   >   
   > The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) was created in 1985 to incentivize   
   landowners to leave some of their marginal land unplanted, a plan meant to   
   protect the environment by reducing agricultural runoff into streams and   
   rivers, preserving wildlife    
   habitats, and preventing erosion. Today, the Department of Agriculture (USDA)   
   “rents” about 21 million acres of farmland from landowners, typically for   
   10 years at a time—a tiny fraction of the total land farmed nationwide. In   
   recent years, the    
   number of acres enrolled in CRP has fallen, possibly because USDA’s rental   
   payments have not been competitive with the open market, Chuck Abbott reported   
   for FERN News.   
   >   
   > The new announcement is a bid to incentivize farmers to enroll 4 million   
   more acres of land in the program to total 25 million acres, the current   
   program limit. “Sometimes the best solutions are right in front of you,”   
   said Agriculture Secretary    
   Tom Vilsack in a press release.   
   >   
   >   
   > “A huge amount of money was essentially paid and then lost when those   
   acres go back into farming.”   
   >   
   > All told, the increased rental rates and expanded incentive payments—which   
   pay farmers extra for growing buffer strips and promoting wildlife   
   habitats—will increase CRP spending by about 18 percent, totaling $300   
   million or more in annual spending.   
   >   
   > “Overall, we think the changes are good, but also they could still be   
   better,” said Anne Schechinger, senior economic analyst with the   
   Environmental Working Group. CRP typically only takes land out of production   
   for 10 years at a time, and many    
   farmers opt not to renew after a decade—many of the environmental benefits   
   are erased as soon as the soil is plowed under and crops are replanted.   
   Schechinger published a report that found almost 16 million acres were taken   
   out of the reserve between    
   2007 and 2014 after landowners opted not to re-rent them to USDA. The   
   government had spent more than $7 billion to preserve those acres. “A huge   
   amount of money was essentially paid and then lost when those acres go back   
   into farming,” Schechinger    
   said.   
   >   
   >   
   > Asked about this issue in a press call on Thursday, Vilsack was vague.   
   “The key here is to make sure that we continue to have a commitment to CRP   
   as one strategy, one of many strategies,” he said. “An acre here may   
   change, but there may be    
   additional acres over there that weren’t in a program that are in a program.   
   Over time you make significant improvement toward a net-zero future.”   
   >   
   > So far, there’s been little motion from Vilsack’s office and the   
   Democrat-controlled Congress on mandatory regulations designed to mitigate   
   agriculture’s environmental impact.   
   >   
   > To be clear, conservation is still a good thing, even if it only lasts for   
   10 years, Schechinger said. But from a climate perspective, plowing up land   
   that has lain fallow for a decade will release a lot of the carbon that was   
   sequestered in the soil.    
   She’d like to see an expansion of the CLEAR30 pilot program, which rents   
   land for 30 years at a time and requires farmers to implement water-friendly   
   conservation measures. Other measures, like slightly higher payments for   
   acreage that has been kept    
   out production for one ten-year cycle, could further incentivize long-term   
   conservation.   
   >   
   > To date, the Biden administration has focused on voluntary, incentives-based   
   programs like CRP to address climate change and the environment in the farming   
   sector. Other Democrats have favored a less business-friendly approach:   
   Senator Cory Booker    
   introduced a moratorium on the construction of new Concentrated Animal Feeding   
   Operations in 2019, which emit the potent greenhouse gas methane, and Senator   
   Bernie Sanders championed broader enforcement of the Clean Air and Clean Water   
   Acts during his    
   presidential campaign. So far, there’s been little motion from Vilsack’s   
   office and the Democrat-controlled Congress on mandatory regulations designed   
   to mitigate agriculture’s environmental impact.   
   >   
   > “I really think regulations are the only way we’re going to accomplish   
   anything,” Schechinger said. “We can keep doing some voluntary—CRP is   
   good, retiring land is a great thing—but it’s not going to be enough to   
   get us where we need to    
   be with mitigating climate change.”   
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   Sounds like an act of TREASON to subvert the food supply by paying   
   FARMERS to NOT grow food.   
      
   More sabotage by the Marxists who are also censoring Americans to hide   
   the Marxist Cultural Revolution that's being waged against WE THE PEOPLE   
   by those Marxist who were given Political and Judicial power.   
      
   It's time to impeach and prosecute the criminals to the full extent of   
   the law under the U.S. Constitution.   
      
      
      
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   The only way to fight the STAGFLATION would be to shrink the size and   
   taxing and spending of the Government combined with raising the interest   
   rates to their NATURAL self determining rates rather than the FAKE   
   INTEREST RATES created by the DEMOCRATS under Obama/Biden-2008 and   
   Biden/Obama-2020....   
      
   The problem isn't "the economy stupid", the problem is   
   *the stupid government manipulated economy* .   
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   -That's karma-   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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