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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 116609" data-attributes="member: 605">ndlongshot said,Every time this lottery subject comes up, the CRP cheerleaders glomb unto it. Want CRP, put your money into it. No....they want everyone else to pay for it. That gentlemen, is called a subsidy.Funny thing is today I was tearing up another 40 acres of it. It went into CRP back in 1998. Came out in 2008. I tried to turn it into pasture. The green needle grass they put in 1998 is crap, my animals don't like it. Have to also cut it for hay every year because of all the wormwood. Can't let it make seed. That crap went nuts for 10 years in the CRP. This is damn poor feed. After eight years of losing money on this field, I'm done. Made several tillage passes over it and it's still rougher than a cobb. Lots of fuel and it's going to take much fertilizer next spring to get this field to produce. btw, there is no wildlife in it. It's a dead zone. Wildlife likes legumes and seeds. I'm not sure what the nature boyz were thinking back in the 90's with their grasses. Also, I believe we need to update the criteria for CRP enrollments. If there are noxious weeds in the rock piles, fence lines, tree rows, waterways or headlands, those acres should not qualify. You know if it does, it's going to blow up into a full blown infestation.</blockquote>