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The pace of the America Last policies implemented by the Hologram’s mad regime continues unabated. While most of the public focus is on big-ticket items like welcoming a flood of illegal aliens after dissolving the US-Mexico border, raising gasoline prices by shutting down pipelines and drilling access on public lands, and destroying US military readiness by turning it into a “woke” organization, there are a whole host of smaller but nevertheless important actions that have gone virtually unnoticed. And all of those are intended to have deleterious effects on Americans, too.
One of those is a recent decision by the US Dept of Agriculture to try to persuade US farmers to put another four million acres into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP):
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Dear Secretary Vilsack and Secretary Haaland,
We write to express concern with the directive in President Biden’s January 27, 2021, climate change executive order (E.O. 14008) to identify strategies to conserve at least 30 percent of our land and waters by 2030, commonly referred to as 30 by 30.
The federal government already possesses approximately 640 million acres of the land in the United States. Unfortunately, there is a significant maintenance backlog on this federal land. Given this reality, acquiring additional federal land would be concerning to us and many of our constituents. With relatively few details about how this proposal would be achieved, additional concerns have been raised about the potential for onerous regulations and land use restrictions as a possible strategy. Such a proposal would have a devastating effect on private landowners.
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The Biden administration is reversing Trump administration cuts to the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
Payments to farmers to set aside land were reduced by the previous former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. With lower payments, some farmers left the program and plowed under land that was once set aside for conservation.
“The payments are intended to offset the losses that a farmer would incur if they take that land out of active production and USDA prioritizes those lands that are most sensitive and most important to conserve,” said Eric Deeble, policy director for the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.