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the farm management - and forceing fuel alternatives that are financialy unviable is that tax dollars for one eliminates anouther

we are seeing a totaly unviable fuel alternative propped up by tax dollars that essentialy have artificialy altered the farm markets pushed ahead - now the effects will be felt in loss of wildlife habbitat that was created by the use of tax dollars used to artificialy alter the farm markets

one conservation effort cancelling out anouther

ST. PAUL (AP) — Almost a third of the 2 million acres of Minnesota wetland set aside in the Conservation Reserve Program could leave the program in the next two years and go back to cropland.


The CRP contracts between the state and farmers are expiring. With rising commodity prices, farmers are finding they can make more money by farming the lands. That has conservationists worried about the environmental impact.

“A healthy wetland ... removes nitrates, removes phosphorus, keeps the water clean flowing into our lakes and rivers,” Kevin Lines, conservation easement manager for the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources said.

The conservation easements began during the farm crisis of the 1980s, less as a way to protect the environment and more as a way to get money into the rural economy. It pays farmers to take marginal land out of production, promising not to plow the land for 10 to 15 years. Last June, Lines had a goal of adding another 120,000 acres to the program. But farmers would only commit to 8,000 acres. Lines said he’s frustrated, but understands the economics involved.

When CRP started, corn and soybean prices were low. Today they’re rising, the value of land is increasing, and farmers say the programs don’t offer them enough to set the land aside.

I see that big time;
No fences here to stop the Herds from migrating.
Fences cut off the elk, Pronghorn, Bison and others, a swell as farmers changing the feed in the area.
Im not anti farming, but farming has brough about big changes in habitat in large areas down south.

Dont they know were only going to be able to grow only so much corn for fuel? How about prices inna bad crop year and its effects on fuel prices? what about rising food prices? Whats more important, fuel or food?

Crazy world, though the upswing is that with alcohol in your gas, you wond have icing problems as much, in your fuel system.....