In North Dakota, farmers are taking lands back from the Conservation Reserve Program to put them back into production. “Last fall,” according to the New York Times, “they took back as many acres as are in Rhode Island and Delaware combined.” Farmers say that government payment for grasslands in the program “aren’t even comparable anymore” to the revenue potential from returning the land to production to provide livestock feed.
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