Word: schnittker
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...after year for continuing conservation practices that they were originally encouraged to start as a demonstration for their neighbors. Some REAP drainage projects destroyed wetlands needed by wildlife and subsidized the growing of potatoes in Idaho to the detriment of potato farmers in Maine. Former Agriculture Under Secretary John Schnittker voices the most telling criticism of the program: "REAP subsidizes farmers to do what they would do anyway. Most conservation practices are themselves profitable...
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