Political Quotes

“One of the amendments limits the number of acres--these will be the new acres coming into the system or any acres that are renewed--a farmer can enroll in the CRP. What we are seeing in rural America is that instead of selling the farm or the ranch to a younger farmer or putting the acres into production, those acres are enrolled in the CRP and they do not produce anything. In other words, the farmer who enrolls them takes the check and it is like going to Arizona--he is still getting the paycheck and still paying for the farm. I think this is wrong. Those acres are enrolled for a good purpose. The original intent of CRP was to put marginal acres in the CRP and leave the good acres to production. What happened? The trend has reversed, and farmers are putting in some good land. It forced some of the fellows who needed to raise their production into breaking up some land that was marginal for grain production. This one amendment calls for a limitation on the number of acres a farmer can put in the CRP.”