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- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:29:49 -0700 (PDT)
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USDA Proposal Could Lead to Crops on Preserved Land
http://www.truthout.org/article/usda-proposal-could-lead-crops-preserved-land
Joel Achenbach, for The Washington Post, reports, "Under pressure from
farmers, livestock producers and soaring food prices, the US
Department of Agriculture is weighing a policy change that could lead
to the plowing of millions of acres of land that had been set aside
for conservation."
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"The release of crop acres is a short-term solution to a corn
shortage caused by the federal ethanol mandate and bad weather
conditions," said Dave Ray, spokesman for the American Meat Institute.
"In the short term, we need to produce more corn to feed ourselves and
consumers abroad. In the long term, we need to revisit the notion that
burning food as fuel is a good idea."
This week, 15 environmental organizations sent a letter to Schafer
declaring that a penalty-free opt-out of CRP contracts would "deliver
a devastating blow to the nation's soil, water, and wildlife habitat,
and significantly increase global warming."
The organizations said the conservation lands are too marginal for
crop production to have a significant impact on the supplies and
prices of food crops.
"This is taxpayer money. We've invested in that land for a
reason," said Julie Sibbing, a senior program manager for the National
Wildlife Federation. "If you don't keep it in that for at least 10
years, we don't get our value out of it."
Scott Stephens, a spokesman for Ducks Unlimited, said the
Conservation Reserve Program has had huge benefits for wildlife and
water quality. If farmers convert grassland back to crops, he said,
"that's a death spiral for wildlife populations."
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