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[–] 5 pts

I predict that he will do nothing with that land.

Why? Because it narrows the available farmland to produce, which will drive up food prices.

[–] 2 pts

I think you're right. Sadly.

[–] 2 pts

The new-wave CRP model. Just openly take productive ground out of rotation.

[–] 1 pt

Whats the CRP model?

[–] 2 pts (edited )

The Conservation Reserve Program funded through the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service. It's marketed as a restoration program to reclaim and rehab overworked farm ground. But in practice it just allowed wealthy generational landowners to inherit acreage from their parents/grandparents who actually worked the ground, and receive a fee to let the ground sit fallow and presumably regenerate into a native grass habitat.

It's also abused to avoid paying higher property taxes (not that they should be a thing anyways) by keeping ground designated as agricultural, even though it's idling, and avoiding having it taxed as residential or recreational use. So leftists with coastal money move inland and buy up farm acres from retiring farmers and enroll the ground in CRP so they don't have to do anything with it.

TLDR, gibs for not actually using the ground to produce a crop.