Although the USDA used to pay farmers just for not growing crops due to large surpluses of primary commodities, the only form of payment now for not growing crops is a program called the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Certain types of environmentally sensitive areas, particularly riparian areas, need protection to prevent erosion or runoff. The USDA essentially "rents" this land for a relatively low price in return for the farmer's planting of permanent grasses, shrubs, and trees to hold the soil. The program requires the farmer to enter into a six-year contract (I think it's six years, though I may not remember correctly).
The USDA has many different programs available to farmers and rural communities for a wide variety of purposes, but the CRP is the only one which even comes close to "...pay farmers not to grow crops."
BECAUSE
Because drought dried up their crops
Because drought dried up their crops
Although the USDA used to pay farmers just for not growing crops due to large surpluses of primary commodities, the only form of payment now for not growing crops is a program called the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Certain types of environmentally sensitive areas, particularly riparian areas, need protection to prevent erosion or runoff. The USDA essentially "rents" this land for a relatively low price in return for the farmer's planting of permanent grasses, shrubs, and trees to hold the soil. The program requires the farmer to enter into a six-year contract (I think it's six years, though I may not remember correctly). The USDA has many different programs available to farmers and rural communities for a wide variety of purposes, but the CRP is the only one which even comes close to "...pay farmers not to grow crops."
When farmers are paid not to cultivate land less crops are produced. This will keep prices up so that the farmers can actually have money for the planting in the following year.
BECAUSE
so they can pay to grow more crops
mainly the crops were collected to pay for the taxes.
Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, Franklin Roosevelt initiated a program where the government would pay the farmers NOT to raise certain livestock, such as hogs, and NOT to grow certain crops, such as corn, cotton, wheat, and tobacco. With the money from this program, poor farmers could pay off their debts from World War I and get back on there own feet. They would be paid, while also not having to pay for supplies to grow their crops. By raising crop prices
Well the Dust Bowl force a lot of people who where farmers to move from there house because the drought was not letting them grow the crops the need to pay for there mortgage and they could pay it off. and if the farming can't grow crops the market place cant sell them.
In history: Farmers would probably have paid their taxes in produce - crops, animals, etc.
crops by sami
Aristocrats relied on farmers to grow the crops that made them rich. About 9 out of 10 Chinese were farmers. They lived in simple houses inside village walls. The aristocrats owned feilds outside the village walls. To pay for the use of land, the farmers gave part of their crop to landowners.
Because drought dried up their crops
Because drought dried up their crops
Because drought dried up their crops
Corn crops were bountiful this year. Bountiful crops meant farmers could pay their bills.