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Post by blackbruin on Mar 14, 2016 2:42:44 GMT -5
So I was sent a letter from gamecommission to enroll into this program, have a meeting Wednesday, they probably want the 62 acres down Belo the road. Anybody here enrolled? Is it similar to Chesapeake crep? I assume planting switchgrass and trees, kinda a joint pheasant and waterway thing...
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Post by Dutch on Mar 14, 2016 4:43:08 GMT -5
The rental payment sure is nice.
My former gun club was getting a payment of $390 per acre in Lebanon County. Payment depends on soil quality I think.
They do require you to spray for weeds each year and mow it once per year. We paid the local farmer to do that.
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Post by blackbruin on Mar 14, 2016 4:53:09 GMT -5
Spraying and mowing us no big deal, I have the equipment. He briefly talked about seeding switchgrass, putting in shrubs and trees like crabapple, black gum etc....said they provide everything but the labor to install. He was talking $250 to $300 per acre, that's roughly $18000 a year on the upper end, not too shabby.....
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Post by Dutch on Mar 14, 2016 5:31:14 GMT -5
CREP is beneficial for erodable soils. It also provides habitat, but, is yet another example of government welfare.
One thing I disliked was they wanted it sprayed, but the milkweed that was killed sure helped the Monarchs.
The last year I was there we did not spray to encourage milkweed.
If you get a thick stand of the grass, you will have less trouble with invasive trees, which was a huge headache for me.
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Post by blackbruin on Mar 14, 2016 6:10:53 GMT -5
Guess I might be a welfare recipient! Do I now put my food stamps in my work boots to hide them, oh nevermind.
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Post by GlennD on Mar 14, 2016 6:13:42 GMT -5
I got the letter too. It would not hurt my feelings to put all my 60 acres in crep. Trouble is, I have goat hills and only about a two acre field.  |
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Post by bowbum on Mar 14, 2016 9:04:15 GMT -5
The rental payment sure is nice. My former gun club was getting a payment of $390 per acre in Lebanon County. Payment depends on soil quality I think. They do require you to spray for weeds each year and mow it once per year. We paid the local farmer to do that. There are different programs. I have been in CREP - "Conservation Resource Enhancement Program" for the last 8 years. However, mine is stream - riparian buffer, where several hundred trees were planted within a prescribed distance of both sides of my stream --- an effort to aid in cooler water temps and erosion in preserving topsoil. I get just around $300 a year for 2-1/2 acres that are enrolled. Also, I am "NOT" allowed to mow except 1/3 of the acreage every 3rd year in rotation. I didn't even look at the recent mailing from the PGC because I'm not interested in making any more changes to our land and being tied in to them, but I believe it is a good program. |
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Post by Dutch on Mar 14, 2016 9:21:55 GMT -5
Yes, forgot, one third mowed per year, sometime in August or so.
We didn't mow ours until I had to take care of it. The lack of mowing set the stand back.
There really was very little oversight from the Gov.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2016 9:29:25 GMT -5
So hunter funded money goes to private land owners?
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Post by bowbum on Mar 14, 2016 10:48:46 GMT -5
So hunter funded money goes to private land owners? No! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2016 11:24:35 GMT -5
So hunter funded money goes to private land owners? No! Where does the funding come from? |
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Post by Dutch on Mar 14, 2016 11:28:28 GMT -5
So hunter funded money goes to private land owners? US Department of Agriculture program. It pays farmers or landowners, not to farm. HUGE program, brought in under Reagan, to take land out of production to support grain prices. Out in the Midwest it's called CRP. Millions of acres enrolled and unfarmed. I hunted in southern Iowa in 2003. Could not believe all the brand new pickups. Outfitter said it was mostly farmers that had their lands in CRP at $50 per acre, back then. 1000 acres at $50 an acre.... and low taxes. Doesn't pay to farm. |
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Post by Dutch on Mar 14, 2016 11:30:27 GMT -5
They say it was the reason for the pheasant boom in the midwest years ago.
When corn prices went crazy the other year, farmers started pulling land out of CRP and planting corn. Hundreds of thousands of acres got planted.
And now we have plenty of corn again, and low corn prices.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2016 11:43:57 GMT -5
Just was wondering. Wouldn't be fair for the PGC to do it. imo
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