Why is the US Dept of Agriculture paying rich farmers to not farm their land.

The US Dept of Agriculture continues to pay millions of dollars to corporate and wealthy landholders to not farm their tillable land at the same time it cuts other programs aimed at helping the less fortunate? We live in an area surrounded by thousands upon thousands of CRP (Crop Reduction Program) acres that the taxpayers fund. The argument put up by the Ag Dept is that it’s a huge help for wildlife. BS!! If a wheat field is next to CRP acreage, the wildlife, such as it is, is in the wheat 99% of the time. I, for one, would like the Government to pay me for sitting on my butt in my $500,000 house in Arizona now and my $500,000 house in ND/MT in the summer instead of having to actually work. The program was initiated 20? years ago when there was actually a wheat surplus. Another question is, with the millions of people on the earth starving, why not buy the wheat from the farmers at a guaranteed rate then give to people in need instead of just paying them for nothing?