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Frank Lucas: “The original CRP program was the old Soil bank program for…”

Featuring: Frank Lucas, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, District 3

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#003 Congressman Frank Lucas - Farm Bills, Screwworms, and Fighting for the Panhandle

Published | Video Starts at 24:24

However, those wheat fields do definitely help stop or protect something of a fire. Absolutely. In the CRP program, we need to remember The original CRP program was the old Soil bank program for the Eisenhower administration back in the 50s. It was designed in a time of more production than we needed after the world came out of the Second World War and our friends around the planet could actually go back to raising some of their own food. (24:24–24:30)

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Asserts that the CRP program originated as the Soil Bank program during the Eisenhower administration.

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