Farmers allowed to pull land out of federal conserved contracts amid global food crisis

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https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/farmers-allowed-to-pull-land-out-of-federal-conserved-contracts-amid-global-food-crisis

Farmers allowed to pull land out of federal conserved contracts amid global food crisis -USDA
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Reuters
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MAY 26, 2022 10:30AM EDT

CHICAGO, May 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will allow farmers who are part of the federal conservation land contracts to voluntarily terminate their contracts and plant on that land, in order to help mitigate the global food crisis, the agency said on Thursday.

The offer is open to farmers who are in the final year of their contract with the agency's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), USDA said on a statement published on their website.

"Participants approved for this one-time, voluntary termination will not have to repay rental payments, a flexibility implemented this year to help mitigate the global food supply challenges caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other factors," according to the agency's statement.
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[2naSalit]

1. Yup...

Saw that coming months ago. Lots of farmland tilled this season that has been untouched for years around here.

[Budi]

2. Yes. President Biden is on top of this necessary Ag expansion. May 12, 2020

President Joe Biden on Wednesday hailed American farmers as the “backbone of freedom,” pledging hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of support and calling on them to offset a global grain shortage caused by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

“You're literally the backbone of our country, it's not hyperbole,” he said, speaking at a family farm in Kankakee, Illinois, where, earlier in the day, he stood in front of a tractor and gazed over growing waves of grain. “But you also feed the world. And we're seeing, with Putin's war in Ukraine, you're like the backbone of freedom.”

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Russia’s 11-week-old invasion of Ukraine has imperiled global supplies of wheat, corn, barley, oilseeds and cooking oil, and it has disrupted fertilizer supplies. World food prices have risen nearly 13% in the wake of the invasion, the White House says.

Biden has announced a number of interventions for American farmers. Those include support that would allow farmers to plant two sets of crops in one year; access to technology that would allow for less fertilizer use, and the doubling of funding for domestic fertilizer production, to $500 million.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.voanews.com/amp/biden-pledges-help-to-us-farmers-offset-ukraine-crop-crisis/6568042.html

Also:
He is to expand on this with his Sec of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack & newly apptd Alexis Taylor Agriculture Department’s undersecretary of trade and foreign agricultural affairs

Biden poised to fill long vacant agricultural trade role
The Agriculture undersecretary will play a key role in the administration's efforts to address a mounting global food crisis.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/13/biden-taylor-agricultural-trade-role-00032399