Talk:Conservation Reserve Program
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It doesn't seem healthy to state that blip about non-farmers and urbanites finding the program controversial (at least not without expounding) -- suggesting it is just "a way for farmers/big ag to get federal dollars without having to plant anything".
Indeed, it is the landowners responsibility to seed the land with appropriate plant and grass seed, at market costs. It is also the landowners responsibility to maintain the land according to standards. It is not a free ride.
Additionally, many of the same said 'non-farmers' and 'urbanites' represent a certain duplicity... sharing the same environmental and land/wildlife preservation goals that programs like this make possible; and providing opportunities for sportsman by increasing and improving hunting land.
I've begun to collect resources on land programs and conservation... here are some of my bookmarks:
emjayess 20:58, 29 November 2006 (UTC)Emjayess
I don't think the reference to non-farmers and urbanites is a problem since there are clearly a number of people with this belief, so removing it would be censorship (WP:NOT#CENSORED). In fact, I believe referring to these people as "non-farmers" and especially "urbanites" violates neutral point of view. While there are probably not many farmers with similar beliefs, this implies that these people are not knowledgeable about the subject, and the titles are not really necessary in the first place, since these views aren't necessarily confined to these groups. Urukagina 03:29, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Some Farmers view the program as an effort to destroy the family farm, since families do not need to live on CRP land in order to maintain it, and their absence in large numbers has devastated many small farming communities.
Boronx Sept. 20, 2007
