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| In North Dakota there were set aside acres. And it had to be in strips of each field, you couldn't just use all of your acres up in full fields. And they wanted flax strips in between the summer fallow to control erosion. If you do any mapping using historical imagery these practices showed up quite a bit. You were allocated only so many acres of each crop based on a percentage of what you operated.
And there was a game that was played where farmers in the red river valley would buy cheap land quite a bit farther west out by hwy 281. They would go out and farm that a little and use some of the surplus to be able to farm more on their productive ground back home.
And there was a storage program. Kind of like a CCC loan but better. They would pay you to store it, give you the money for the grain in advance. And of course you could sell it for more later when the price went up. We had a landlord that had quite a few small 3000-5000 bushel bins, like a dozen to twenty. We filled them all up with barley sprinkled with reldan. 3 years later we ended up taking the grain out and it was over double what it was when it went in, but it was a miserable job getting it all out as I was just a kid at the time helping my dad and his hired hand get them all swept out. | |
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Set aside, soil bank?
