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Post by throbak on Feb 11, 2016 12:07:26 GMT -5
CRP is a result of the dust bowl days in the 30,s and is For soil and Water erosion preventative..There are more than whole field CRP one of the most utilized are grass waterways . One of the biggest reasons for not using the programs is people don't understand them one of the most underutilized CRP is field edge Those areas just don't produce and the benifits for wildlife and money saved by not planting a area that will not be profitable anyway is a win win
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Post by steiny on Feb 12, 2016 11:37:58 GMT -5
Good luck convincing these slash and burn farmers it's a win win. They don't want any edges or fence rows, just road to road crops.
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Post by nfalls116 on Feb 12, 2016 13:57:44 GMT -5
That isn't to say I wouldn't pursue maybe a wildlife or forestry or DNR classification for my property to lower property taxes. That though would not be taking any money from the state or federal and putting it in my pocket, merely keeping more of what is in my pocket in my pocket. if you re classified it.to lower your taxes then you are in fact taking tax monies away |
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Post by ms660 on Feb 12, 2016 15:12:19 GMT -5
I agree about the woods and fence rows being taken out , but draining marshes and wetlands and putting that ground back into farm production is not happening now days. You would get off easier killing a human than doing that. Hell if you have a few cattails spring up on your ground now days it's considered a wetlands and off limits by the DNR unless it's ground that they have plans for then they kind of look the other way
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Post by throbak on Feb 12, 2016 15:35:40 GMT -5
The money you don't pay in taxes Is spent on other things and other places in the community the way you want it spent and leveraged into more than Property taxes spent on Schools where the bulk of the money goes. And the Feds designate wetlands through the FSA
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Post by steiny on Feb 16, 2016 7:56:38 GMT -5
Untold numbers of small previously un-farmed wet areas have been drained in last decades with no repercussions. One down the road from me dried out during a drought summer a couple years ago, so they mowed all the cattails flat. While we didn't lose that wetland, it had almost zero cover that fall for wildlife.
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