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Farm News: WI Pork Leader Visiting VilsackcommentsPosted: 03.08.2011 A Wisconsin pork producer who's now the leader of the National Pork Producers Council will be spending some time with U.S. Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack. Doug Wolf, a pork producer from Lancaster and the president of the NPPC will meet today with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to ask him to release Conservation Reserve Program acres for corn and other plantings to try and increase harvests.
Wolf says there are about 30-million acres in CRP and about 4-million to 8-million of those acres are not really considered to be environmentally sensitive and eligible for release. Wolf says even if Secretary Vilsack could release the acres - it wouldn't impact this years crop. The Wisconsin Farm Bureau shares NPPC's thoughts on an early release of CRP acres.
“The early-out, penalty-free release of non-environmentally sensitive CRP cropland would help encourage increased supply and allow Wisconsin farm families to benefit from a strong global market demand,” said Bill Bruins, Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation President.
The federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) pays landowners for idling tracts of farmland for contractual periods of 10 to 15 years. Nationally the contracts on 4.4 million acres are set to expire on September 30, 2011.
“There is a great need for additional acres of crop production this year as global stocks of basic crops like corn, soybeans and wheat will be extremely tight by summer, leaving little room for anything less than a bumper crop,” said Bruins. “The release of additional CRP acres could help ensure that grain and oilseed production adequately meet the demand for food and feed, as increased feed costs are eating away at profitable margins for dairy and livestock farmers.”
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