[NVDave]

Detail for me which programs pay farmers to not grow crops.

[allmendream]

Which programs pay farmers not to grow crops? From the Washington Post, 2008.

“At issue is the Conservation Reserve Program, under which the government has paid farmers to stop growing row crops, such as corn and soybeans, on 34 million acres across the country. Designed in the mid-1980s to hold down production and bolster commodity prices, the $1.8 billion-a-year program”