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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FlatTopPete" data-source="post: 324369" data-attributes="member: 7280">Guywhodoesntknowanythingabouteconomics:Haha, First off I’m not GST. I just find it funny how a lot of you guys act like if you had the chance to improve the value of an asset and in turn make more annual income, you wouldn’t do it cuz it hurts the sportsman.Think about it. If the crp payment is $40-60 per acre per year and land rent is $80-100, what exactly do you think is going to happen? Whether it’s an 80 year old woman that owns the land, or it’s in a trust, or those horrible farmers own it, every single one of them is going to try to maximize their income. You would too if you were in their shoes. Another thing you guys talk about is tree row removal. Here’s the thing on that. A lot of those tree rows were planted in the 50’s-80’s back when farming involved tilling the ground and making it black every year. NRCS promoted tree rows to combat wind erosion of the soil. And in some cases it was a good idea. But now with the advent of no-till the dust doesn’t blow as badly as before. Hell the last year we would have seen an insane dust storm if everyone would be plowing. Wayyyy worse than what we have seen so far. And a lot of those shelterbelts have reached the end of their life cycle. So there’s that too.</blockquote>