End the program that pays farmers not to farm
What the document says“Farmers should not be paid in such a sweeping way not to farm their land.”
The chapter says that if there is a desire to keep extremely sensitive land out of production this should be done through targeted efforts clearly connected to a specific environmental harm, and that the department should work with Congress to eliminate what it calls this overbroad program.
What the document actually says“Farmers should not be paid in such a sweeping way not to farm their land.”
Farmers get paid not to farm their land. That should not be done so widely.
One program pays farmers to leave land empty. It is meant to protect nature. The book says it is far too broad.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025, Public Law 119-102, widens the Emergency Conservation Program and the Emergency Forest Restoration Program under the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978, adding advance payments of up to 75 percent and reaching more kinds of repair after disasters. That is a cost share for restoring damaged farmland, a different program from the Conservation Reserve Program, and the law expands rather than ends it. Nothing indexed eliminates payments for keeping land out of production. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.