A Look into the 2002 Farm Bill: Conservation Reserve Program

The Conservation Reserve Program Some people counter that the subsidy program, The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), is a balance to the intensive farming that is resultant of direct payments (see my post on direct payments here). CRP pays farmers to not farm some of their land to try to influence market prices, and deal with [...]

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Current Federal Agricultural Subsidies: Not Helping Anything

Current Farm Policies and How They Contribute to Negative Environmental Impacts Summary: Part of current farm policies (and farm policies going back the past 50 years) is to directly pay farmers to grow certain crops. These payments, surprisingly enough, are called direct payments, and they were featured heavily in the 2002 Farm Bill, which is [...]

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