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.
Would Bill Gates be getting a fee to let his farmland sit fallow?
Bill Gates NOT getting a fee for something seems kind of farfetched, doesn't it?
Why does a tech billionaire need to buy so much farmland? This alone is pause for concern.
His entire modus operandi for decades has been world depopulation.
Possibly. The NRCS has a whole host of cost-share (government subsidized) programs aimed at agricultural and timber ground.
It seems like all it would take is a single $0.25 unit launched from a pressure based accelerated device to solve our problems... but we're not allowed to talk about that kind of thing in simple terms without law enforcement getting involved.
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