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Iowa Independent » Court ruling allows conditional haying of CRP land

Started by CIM Network · 10 months ago

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  • How can this ruling be considered anyting but unfair and unjust. The judge did not take into consideration the fact many ranchers like myself in the northern part of the country cannot hay crp until the nesting period ends which would be july 15th. Because we could not hay the crp until then we had no reason to be in the office filing the paperwork before July 8th. We were not ready to sign up by the 8th of july, but we were also told by our local FSA office that the office would NOT take any applications after word of the lawsuit by the NWF was filed.

    As far as impact on the wildlife in this country, the crp needs to be hayed, grazed or burned at least every 5 years. By allowing the old vegitation to build up it destroys the root system and chokes any new growth. This I know from our own use of rotational grazing. I would also guess that most of the members of the national Wildlife federation will not be out feeding these birds this winter when the snow is 2 or 3 feet deep in the CRP. The birds that are here then will be in eating with my cattle. Perhaps i should sue the wildlife federation for the birds they are protecting eating the feed that is meant for my cattle.
  • Not sure what good it did the wildlike folks to stop releasing CRP, since most acres are controlled by farmers, I am not sure where they are going to hunt , as most farmers now are not going to allow the bird lovers to hunt, since they seem to love birds and hate beef.

    Just like the brainless politicians, that are pro abortion, but against horse slaughter. They are for murdering babies, but against slaughtering excess horse inventory, that could be used to feed the third world countries that are starving. Ask any WWII POW and they were damn glad to get horse meat.
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