"A decades-old program that pays farmers to leave land fallow is being heralded by the Biden administration as a climate solution, but environmentalists don’t see it that way."
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/29/usda-farmers-conservation-program-507028
"the government described the program as an environmental one rather than an income maintenance scheme. As described to the public, it was compensation to farmers for retiring acreage to reduce fertilizer and pesticide runoff into the nation’s water supply."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/why-does-the-govt-pay-farmers
"The Conservation Reserve Program is administered through the USDA's Farm Services Agency and provides annual payments to participants who agree to take their land out of crop production and establish conservation-friendly vegetative cover crops instead. Participants enter into contracts for 10 or 15 years. Annual payments are based on agriculture rental value."
https://pocketsense.com/do-government-not-farming-land-7562905.html
"The government paid millions of dollars last year in farm subsidies to wealthy city-dwellers – many of them receiving taxpayer dollars not to farm their rural country estates, according to a new report by the Environmental Working Group"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/city-dwelling-landowners-paid-millions-farm-secondary-estates/story?id=13916915
"The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would expand a program that pays farmers to leave land fallow, part of a broader, government-wide effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030."
https://thecounter.org/biden-administration-farmers-conservation-reserve-crp-usda-vilsack/
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has doled out millions of dollars in subsidies to farms on which farming isn’t actually taking place, according a new report from government watchdogs. Billions more have gone towards supporting farms that don’t grow the crops for which they’re being subsidized."
https://www.dailysignal.com/2012/07/09/usda-gives-millions-to-farmers-who-arent-actually-farming/
"In recent decades, the government has stepped back from managing supply levels by paying farmers not to farm."
https://work.chron.com/much-subsidized-farmers-paid-20223.html
The Biden Administration Will Pay Farmers More Money Not to Farm
https://www.governing.com/now/the-biden-administration-will-pay-farmers-more-money-not-to-farm
GOVERNMENT TRYING TO CREATE FOOD SHORTAGE – PAYING FARMERS TO DESTROY CROPS; THREATENING NO FARM SUBSIDIES IF THEY REFUSE
https://seemorerocks.is/government-trying-to-create-food-shortage-paying-farmers-to-destroy-crops-threatening-no-farm-subsidies-if-they-refuse/