| JCBFarmsND - 5/31/2026 23:17
Speaking for my area a lot of that ground that "can't be farmed" because it's too wet was farmed for literally a hundred years with very little problems outside the dirty 30s or 1988. Change in weather patterns and everyone being sold a bad bill of goods like no-till and wetland easements has been the issues we have dealt with, and have almost no way to address it thanks to Swampbuster and wetland easements. Get rid of those two things, i guarantee prevent plant will disappear
Amen to that! Wetland easements are a huge problem in our part of NE SD too. The guys that aren’t lucky enough to farm in these pothole areas have no clue what it’s like, they just bitch that we shouldn’t get PP on this land, or say it shouldn’t be farmed. They probably wouldn’t last one year going around up to 20-30 different sloughs on a quarter section of land. These stupid easements are one of the crookedest government things ever done, at least let us current owners buy out of these stupid things. Just because some idiot in the 60s or 70s had absolutely no foresight for the productivity of their land, doesn’t mean we all think that way! My dad and grandpa and some others around here were actually making ditches to improve their land 50-60 years ago, instead of just signing up for those crooked easements. Dad said when he was young, the government would actually pay them $ for putting in drainage ditches, the bigger and deeper the ditch, the more $ they got! Boy things have changed.
Edited by BobNESD 6/1/2026 23:43
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