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[Muskrat24]

Bingo!!!

I think there’s a huge opportunity for small grains as well. But yet again, no infrastructure to support those crops to be moved across the state. We’ve got rail systems and great roads that make getting across Iowa for the most part pretty easy. All it’s going to take is for someone to take the risk and start dealing with these commodities and there will be a long list of guys willing to diversify their operation. I know of a handful just with the ones I work with.

So with this assumption you would be suggesting that all of the poor producing soils that have been cleaned up just to farm and put into CRP which is not the case. I work in it every day and right now there is plenty of demand to farm those acres. The counties I work in have less CRP acreage than they did 10 years ago. Higher farm profits have driven disposable income available to clean up unproductive ground which then leads to more profit in the environment we have been in. You also have to keep in mind that there are lots of CRP acres in small grain areas too and GRP in grass areas. Commodity markets will be impacted if CRP is eliminated and down goes cash rents.

One factor a lot of people miss is the lack of teeth shown by NRCS. They should be holding these producers to the fire with HEL compliance as they have to be in compliance to receive crop insurance subsidies.