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<blockquote data-quote="SDMF" data-source="post: 484165" data-attributes="member: 412">More deer survive those ugly winter w/habitat than treeless harvested bean fields.I don’t put the blame on guys trying to make a living on razor-thin margins.&nbsp; It’s unfortunate how a farmer’s products/pricing-power can be so influenced by world politics.&nbsp; Vast markets shut off like a light switch.&nbsp; Couple that with a very tight labor market and the absolute need to get crops in/out efficiently and as fast as possible (to beat the weather mostly) once you start.It galls me to see all the top-soil that’s in the ditches every spring as the snow melts but the need for speed seems like it must be worth turning everything black every fall.All that said, I find the idea of farms getting positively enormous and/or being corporately owned far more concerning, especially if those corporate owners are based on foreign soil.I doubt we’ll see MD ever again covered by an ocean of CRP.&nbsp; That said, we don’t NEED oceans of CRP.&nbsp; A few yards either side of a creek, drainage ditch, fence line, maybe a few tree-row planted @ intervals that don’t interfere w/the newer larger/wider equipment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SDMF, post: 484165, member: 412"] More deer survive those ugly winter w/habitat than treeless harvested bean fields. I don’t put the blame on guys trying to make a living on razor-thin margins. It’s unfortunate how a farmer’s products/pricing-power can be so influenced by world politics. Vast markets shut off like a light switch. Couple that with a very tight labor market and the absolute need to get crops in/out efficiently and as fast as possible (to beat the weather mostly) once you start. It galls me to see all the top-soil that’s in the ditches every spring as the snow melts but the need for speed seems like it must be worth turning everything black every fall. All that said, I find the idea of farms getting positively enormous and/or being corporately owned far more concerning, especially if those corporate owners are based on foreign soil. I doubt we’ll see MD ever again covered by an ocean of CRP. That said, we don’t NEED oceans of CRP. A few yards either side of a creek, drainage ditch, fence line, maybe a few tree-row planted @ intervals that don’t interfere w/the newer larger/wider equipment. [/QUOTE]

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