Well, it looks like giving a mile of ditch hay to the neighbor has come back ten fold. He has a quarter of CRP across the road from my yard. He is going to let me groom a 45' wide strip through it at an angle to the northwest for a possible 1000' runway. Checking the CRP contract it says no crops shall be harvested. Looks like I can cut it and rake it off the strip. Hey Skydive206, did the girls show up for the pool or do they show up when you build the runway? Need to plan for the grand opening. If I build it will they come?

You are living the dream, man. 4-place homebuilt bush plane and your own strip.

They showed up for the Runway. The pool put them in the Bikinis. The cheering was because I just looked so Cool. The booze got them in the hot tub and Bikinis off. Im hope mine stay at the Flying V Ranch. You will have to attract your own.

1SeventyZ wrote:You are living the dream, man. 4-place homebuilt bush plane and your own strip.

Thanks Zane, I am giving it my best. I just passed the FAA physical and can give it a run for another 2 years. No psyco-eval yet either.

Skydive206 wrote:They showed up for the Runway. The pool put them in the Bikinis. The cheering was because I just looked so Cool. The
booze got them in the hot tub and Bikinis off. Im hope mine stay at the Flying V Ranch. You will have to attract your own.

I don't dare take any chances on this, so I will print up the Grand Opening flyers with a picture of the stock dam nearby. Can you send a picture of yourself to put on there also? I can find the booze. Thanks

dirtstrip wrote:Well, it looks like giving a mile of ditch hay to the neighbor has come back ten fold. He has a quarter of CRP across the road from my yard. He is going to let me groom a 45' wide strip through it at an angle to the northwest for a possible 1000' runway. Checking the CRP contract it says no crops shall be harvested. Looks like I can cut it and rake it off the strip. Hey Skydive206, did the girls show up for the pool or do they show up when you build the runway? Need to plan for the grand opening. If I build it will they come?

My CRP/guvement people here didn't bat an eyelash when I informed them I'd be flying off my place (in CRP when I bought it 5 years ago), every time I go in the office they like to BS flying, seems like they are all for it!

Dirtstrip, Your kind of on my way to Jamestown, ND. I should go home to the folks more often and maybe I can time it with the Grand opening. My 206s are light have big tires, big engines, Sportsman, and Wing X and we consistantly only use 700 of my 1450ft strip. Do I qualify?

Absolutely, Skydive206! Since you are the man and have done this before you will of course be in charge of bringing the entertainment. Wow, things are really falling in place. I just have to get the grass cut, the holes filled and the mounds leveled. I will wait to put the lawn chairs up around the stock dam until I get a firm date. This is gonna rock.

Skydive, what are you doing in Jamestown?

When is this party gonna happen? Can I come too?

My Mom lives outside of Jamestown. I graduated high school there. Yes I did graduate. How do you spell graduate?

Newb question..what is CRP?

CRP is crop reduction program. A gov't program that was designed to reduce the amount of wheat being grown domestically in the US. It allowed farmers to plant their fields to a particular variety of grass, similar to prairie grasses of old, and then receive a payment from the gov't in place of their wheat profits,(assuming it rained enough to make a profit)

But Tadpole why are you asking. You shouldn't have time to be wasting on the computer, you have an airplane to fix up. Now no more of these "MX Delays", get to work!


Jughead

Tadpole wrote:Newb question..what is CRP?

Jughead got the gist of it. CRP actually stands for Conservation Reserve Program. It is a soil conservation program to remove erodible soils from crop production by holding that soil in place with grass, which in turn does lower the amount of wheat and other grains it would have produced. It preserves those high risk soils for future use by making a payment to a landowner to place the field in grass for a period of 10 years. As all government programs go they have supporters and detractors who make their inputs into the process through lobbyists. The final version of this farm program represented a coalition of NRA, Ducks unlimited and other hunting groups plus of course the small ag interests but not the big ag lobby of fertilizer and chemical companies and grain shippers who generally oppose lessening their sales volumes with these programs which shrink the acres being farmed, directly affecting their sales. The newest entrant to offer support for the program is the state of South Dakota itself who is looking at losing huge acreages of available hunting lands coming out as these older CRP contracts expire, causing a large drop in the revenues of hunting license sales and the corresponding drop in hunters who travel here and spend millions of dollars each year with restaurants,hotels liquor and hunting gear sales being the biggest beneficiaries. To counter this drop in economic activity, and anticipated drop in sales tax collections, the state is offering what is known as the CREP program. It stands for Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program. In addition to the federal payment of the regular CRP, the farmer can get a payment from the state also if the land is at least 40 continuous acres and has water for wildlife located on it. The landowner must also agree that it will be open to public access for hunting year round. Private commercial hunting does not benefit. The federal and state payments combined will bring nearly what the market price of land rent does now. Landowners are signing up eligible fields cautiously, even though they will be locked in to receiving the same payment for the next ten years while the rental rates for this land, if it had remained in farming would creep upward during that same time and if signed up, the landowner will have the additional expense of controlling noxious weeds for the next ten years out of his own pocket, but if he rented it out for farming the renting farmer would be doing that for him for free. There are tradeoffs each way.

Now back to the planning stages of my grass strip grand opening which most likely will not happen till next year. I expect soybean harvest to happen at the end of September and corn harvest to run until the snow flies. I possibly will have the strip ready before real winter sets in but ice on the stock dam would shrink the Skydive206 bikini crowd along with other participanting factions. Did I spell that right?

jugheadF15 wrote:Now no more of these "MX Delays", get to work!

Some things never change