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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 324362" data-attributes="member: 389">CRP, being a federally funded program, is at the discretion of Congress.  Congress sets the goals and funding.  It's been awhile now, but I distinctly remember ND landowners who wanted to re-up their CRP contracts some years back who were flat out told no.  So in order to keep some income coming in, those landowners had to either farm the land or cash rent it out to someone else who would farm it.As far as tree rows go?  I get it, many of them were nearing the end of their useful life, especially with the advent of dicamba resistant crops that saw pesticide drift speed up the demise of the trees.  I miss seeing those trees on the countryside because although Monsatan and company talk about how drought tolerant varieties and no-till / minimum till farming would prevent the blowing of the soil, I twice saw 20-30 mile long clouds of dust last week as I was out driving around.  And it wasn't exactly windy on either occasion. We need dicamba resistant trees.NG3067, I'm not sure if you are confusing PLOTS program with CRP, or ????  PLOTS is only an access program, not a conservation program.  PLOTS only pays a few dollars an acre and probably doesn't even cover the tax payment on many of those acres of land, much less weed control, which is why they still need to farm/graze it.  CRP, which may be $20-40 an acre, doesn't guarantee anyone access to it even though it is often better habitat than what may be in PLOTS.  Coverlocks is a habitat and access program, but its acreage is pretty small when compared to PLOTS and CRP.  School sections are there to help fund local school districts, so renting it out as pasture or cropland provides a heck of a lot more income to the schools than not allowing ag use of it.I get it, we have lost a crap load of habitat over the past 20 years, but I don't see solutions here outside of rolling back ag program changes and wishful thinking about how other's manage their assets for our benefit.  I know I don't manage my land for the express benefit of others, I do what I want with it so long as it's legal and in my own best interests.  Which I try to do while keeping it as good habitat, but then again...I never said I was a good businessman.</blockquote>

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