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My CRP story is a long one. Your story will be
very similar but, in my story it was bittersweet.
Short story version. Previous CRP was ending.
Ducks Unlimited/USDA offered 3x more money
if hunters allowed to use.
DU/USDA wanted to destroy very nice, lush, well kept
up CRP fields with Roundup in order to have
more native grasses planted (that would take
5 years). All kinds of animals lived there.
In the meantime someone shot in to the home
stead house. Welp, that sealed a different deal
and no dam hunters hunting there again!
I paid a hefty penalty to get out of the newly signed
contract but no more Government involvement.
They asked what I was going to do with the CRP, I
just smiled and walked away (none of their business).
It was rented out to a well respected, generous
Farmer later that day.
You need to read, read, and re-read that contact.
You need to understand what exactly will be expected
of you for up keep of the CRP. DU/USDA now will own you
for a long time. You will receive mail every so often,
they inspected CRP, and needs noxious weeds taken care of.
Good Luck.
very similar but, in my story it was bittersweet.
Short story version. Previous CRP was ending.
Ducks Unlimited/USDA offered 3x more money
if hunters allowed to use.
DU/USDA wanted to destroy very nice, lush, well kept
up CRP fields with Roundup in order to have
more native grasses planted (that would take
5 years). All kinds of animals lived there.
In the meantime someone shot in to the home
stead house. Welp, that sealed a different deal
and no dam hunters hunting there again!
I paid a hefty penalty to get out of the newly signed
contract but no more Government involvement.
They asked what I was going to do with the CRP, I
just smiled and walked away (none of their business).
It was rented out to a well respected, generous
Farmer later that day.
You need to read, read, and re-read that contact.
You need to understand what exactly will be expected
of you for up keep of the CRP. DU/USDA now will own you
for a long time. You will receive mail every so often,
they inspected CRP, and needs noxious weeds taken care of.
Good Luck.