Secretary Vilsack is trying to encourage the use of cover crops by providing incentive payments.
In 1969 I was in North Carolina trying to get a little exposure to state and county operations. I remember the CED in one county took me on a visit to a sawmill operation. IIRC they were shaving the logs to create the slices of wood used in making baskets when we visited. While there he signed up a worker for an Agricultural Conservation Program practice for cover crops on his land. I think he knew the worker, his sawmill job, and his farming operation (perhaps tobacco?) well enough to make that trip.
In the 1970's the Nixon/Butz regime targeted the program using the argument that good farmers would use good farming practices which were profitable; the corollary is that a practice which isn't profitable isn't good and ignoring the issue of differing time periods.
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