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I was talking with a man today and he mentioned that Biden administration is paying farmers not to farm, his idea is that it's to create "food ration lines" in the cities where to get your government food rations you have to show your covid vaccination card.I did a search and found all sorts of theories and (supposed) reasons.
To prevent insecticide/herbicide/fertilizer run off into water ways.
To reduce carbon footprint/green house gases from farming.
To prevent over production of certain crops.
To controlling the population by food shortages.
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) was created in 1985 to incentivize landowners to leave some of their marginal land unplanted, a plan meant to protect the environment by reducing agricultural runoff into streams and rivers, preserving wildlife habitats, and preventing erosion. Today, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) “rents” about 21 million acres of farmland from landowners, typically for 10 years at a time—a tiny fraction of the total land farmed nationwide. In recent years, the number of acres enrolled in CRP has fallen, possibly because USDA’s rental payments allegedly have not been competitive with the open market.
The new announcement is a bid to incentivize farmers to enroll 4 million more acres of land in the program to total 25 million acres, the current program limit. “Sometimes the best solutions are right in front of you,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in a press release.
To date, the Biden administration has focused on voluntary, incentives-based programs like CRP to address climate change and the environment in the farming sector. Other Democrats have favored a less business-friendly approach: Senator Cory Booker introduced a moratorium on the construction of new Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in 2019, which emit the potent greenhouse gas methane, and Senator Bernie Sanders championed broader enforcement of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts during his presidential campaign. So far, there’s been little motion from Vilsack’s office and the Democrat-controlled Congress on mandatory regulations designed to mitigate agriculture’s environmental impact.
“I really think regulations are the only way we’re going to accomplish anything,” Schechinger said. “We can keep doing some voluntary—CRP is good, retiring land is a great thing—but it’s not going to be enough to get us where we need to be with mitigating climate change.”
Now, we see the unimaginable actual plan: Pay farmers 1.5 times the value of their crops to DESTROY THEM, or cut those farmers off from farming subsidies if they refuse to destroy the crops. This will, without fail, create a food shortage.
https://www.governing.com/now/the-biden ... ot-to-farm