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It is when the farmer is not required to do anything more than that to receive payment. The US has not had this system for a number of years now, opting instead for an incentive-based system in which the farmer must perform a number of other requirements, frequently conservation-based in nature, in order to receive a payment. Furthermore, many of these contracts run for five or six years, so farmers can't just take certain land and put it in the program and just take it out again the next year. The days of a US farmer being paid to do nothing at all are long gone, a relic of a past generation.

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