In 1986, during the first signup, a 247-acre farm in Weakley County, Tennessee, was offered for CRP enrollment by the Weakley County Bank. Mack and Mary June Goode of Crockett County later purchased the property and assumed the CRP contract....
At just over 95 years of age, Aaron Nathan (A.N.) Garland remembers always wanting to farm. He was born and raised on a farm in Chester County, Tennessee, and he says he has farmed all his life. ...
Thelma Godwin and her husband Dick Godwin of McNairy County, Tennessee, have been involved in the CRP since its inception. The Godwins farmed 160 acres of their 250 acres in corn and soybeans prior to their enrollment in the CRP program....
Tennessee may seem a long way from the Gulf of Mexico, but water from Tennessee and 30 other states flows down the mighty Mississippi River before reaching the Gulf. Agricultural runoff from Tennessee and elsewhere contributes to the nutrient load in the Mississippi and, eventually, to contaminants reaching the Gulf. There, a large "dead zone" exists where waters are depleted...
