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<blockquote data-quote="Trip McNeely" data-source="post: 439218" data-attributes="member: 728"><p>Which is true…. Unless they plant marijuana trees <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷🏼" title="Person shrugging: medium-light skin tone&nbsp; &nbsp; :person_shrugging_tone2:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fc.png" data-shortname=":person_shrugging_tone2:" /> but Ive heard them also complain about farming in circles on wet years or having the crop under 4” of water all summer. Most I know dobt love burying their tractors trying to get a couple of extra acres of 13 bushel wheat around sloughs either. Or turning over cattails to get a good soaker on it the next week. We need a program that incentivizes to leave that ground. Pay them enough per acre on it that the effort of draining, plowing, burning and farming in circles isnt worth&nbsp; it when the payments are a bit better. A large sweeping crp program seems unlikely. Why not a program that targets smaller parcels or acres, pays a bit more and strategically uses existing non farmable areas. Such as buffers around wetlands or squaring off irregular sloughs. 5-10-30 acres at a time. Let the farmers spend their time on the productive ground. Not as ideal as giant chunks of habitat but it’s better than nothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Trip McNeely, post: 439218, member: 728"] Which is true…. Unless they plant marijuana trees 🤷🏼 but Ive heard them also complain about farming in circles on wet years or having the crop under 4” of water all summer. Most I know dobt love burying their tractors trying to get a couple of extra acres of 13 bushel wheat around sloughs either. Or turning over cattails to get a good soaker on it the next week. We need a program that incentivizes to leave that ground. Pay them enough per acre on it that the effort of draining, plowing, burning and farming in circles isnt worth it when the payments are a bit better. A large sweeping crp program seems unlikely. Why not a program that targets smaller parcels or acres, pays a bit more and strategically uses existing non farmable areas. Such as buffers around wetlands or squaring off irregular sloughs. 5-10-30 acres at a time. Let the farmers spend their time on the productive ground. Not as ideal as giant chunks of habitat but it’s better than nothing. [/QUOTE]

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