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IowaBowHunter1983 said:
Yes but they no longer cost share mandated mid contract maintenance
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Good catch! I missed that. I didn’t actually sign a contract yet since I’m taking out 2 acres to leave up more food on one side of the farm so didn’t look at all the details since they aren’t figured out yet. My previous price per acre had the yearly maintenance cost share factored in to it. My base price probably only went down $10ish from the contract 10 years ago once that is factored in. Quite a bit of variation between counties!
 
Butch973 said:
Yeah, I’m curious what the rates will be we have a big farm coming out, but we want to try to re-enroll some of the steep stuff and the buffer strips along the river. It’s all in that SAFE (gaining ground) program now. Is there anything better out there? It was enrolled when we bought it.
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Not sure if this helps. I had a pollinator field expire after 10 years in September, 2025. Pollinator program wasn’t available anymore and I switched to Quail Habitat. Rates dropped from $207 to about $180 or a little lower.
 
jlwdvm said:
I purchased an ajoining 26 acres tillable to my 95 timber/CRP piece last spring (closed 4/18). The neighbor was going to sell off large lots for houses. I rented it to the previous owner for 2025 because you have to own a piece for 1 year prior to putting it back into CRP. This year, I still fell short of 1 year (by 1 month) if I wanted to get it signed up! The FSA office mentioned that I could get the previous owner to sign it back in (as it has been in CRP before) and then sign the contracts back over to me after 4/18. That's the plan.
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I could be wrong but I don’t quite think it works that way as you are the current owner. Scenarios like you are describing have to happen prior to the closing as far as I know. Are you saying you rented the land back to the seller and it was being cropped for 2025 by the previous seller?
 
booneriverbucks said:
Good catch! I missed that. I didn’t actually sign a contract yet since I’m taking out 2 acres to leave up more food on one side of the farm so didn’t look at all the details since they aren’t figured out yet. My previous price per acre had the yearly maintenance cost share factored in to it. My base price probably only went down $10ish from the contract 10 years ago once that is factored in. Quite a bit of variation between counties!
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Some CRP contracts allow you to leave the ground in CRP, but set acres aside acres for food plots. You might be able to get paid on that 2a and still use it as a food plot. You might ask if you haven't already.
 
Muskrat24 said:
I could be wrong but I don’t quite think it works that way as you are the current owner. Scenarios like you are describing have to happen prior to the closing as far as I know. Are you saying you rented the land back to the seller and it was being cropped for 2025 by the previous seller?
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The county FSA office has been working with me on this, and that is the solution they came up with to assure me that it would get into the program without having to gamble on a second round of sign up, if there are still acres left to get to the cap. The acres were in the program until 2021, then the previous owner farmed them through 2025 ( I rented them back to him).
 
jlwdvm said:
The county FSA office has been working with me on this, and that is the solution they came up with to assure me that it would get into the program without having to gamble on a second round of sign up, if there are still acres left to get to the cap. The acres were in the program until 2021, then the previous owner farmed them through 2025 ( I rented them back to him).
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I’ll do some checking as I will be in meetings this week with some people in the know on CRP. Not getting in your way but would like to know myself. All CRP I have been involved with required the current deed. Has the FSA office switched you to the current owner? I was not aware that a tenant could bid a farm into CRP.
 
deerdown said:
Some CRP contracts allow you to leave the ground in CRP, but set acres aside acres for food plots. You might be able to get paid on that 2a and still use it as a food plot. You might ask if you haven't already.
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They used too! Having them check on that on that. They didn’t know for sure if that was going to be a possibility or not anymore. I guess whatever contract I currently have is being phased out and will be put into one of two different new programs. They also had some limits on what kind of food was planted and I’m not quite sure I always want to do that. Should just take the money tho if possible!
 
In the past, they used to give a list of what you could plant, and some of those were dependant on the size of the plot, for example - 1a or larger required for a clover plot..... once I asked FSA if I could plant something other than what's on the supplied list and they said "we don't care, as long as something is planted".....ymmv
 
Those rates are crazy but I know your topsoil is better than mine in sandy Kansas.I was getting 46.00.All mine expired and I left it in grass but they wouldn't re enroll it.Ecept for a wetland and they wanted me to keep forbs there that would cost me more to replant every 2 years than they were paying.So many forbs get choked out by NWSG or drowned I wasn't going to reseed.
 
Muskrat24 said:
I’ll do some checking as I will be in meetings this week with some people in the know on CRP. Not getting in your way but would like to know myself. All CRP I have been involved with required the current deed. Has the FSA office switched you to the current owner? I was not aware that a tenant could bid a farm into CRP.
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My paperwork is getting signed tomorrow at $238/acre for Washington County with a CSR of 67. I was getting $250/acre cash rent when it was farmed. I'll be able to but in 2.5 acres (10%) in food plots.
 
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