This story was originally published by Barn Raiser. In the mid 1980s, Thomas Eich’s grandparents, who farmed corn and soybeans, enrolled in the newly established Conservation Reserve Program, administered via the U.S. Department of Agriculture to incentivize farmers to cease farming on environmentally sensitive land. His grandfather signed up for the program to help restore […]
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