Flooding Follow Up - Government to Buy Out Flooded Farmers?

As we saw recently, there is reasonable suspicion that the US government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, is carrying out a campaign to flood the upper Mississippi drainage, to better restore the natural habitat, causing untold harm to farms and property.  But what good would that do if people just go out and plant their farms and rebuild their houses after the floods (as people have done since the the time of Noah).

Now word comes that the federal government may be offering to buy recently flooded farmland:

File this one under “Now It All Makes Sense”. A Missouri farming and ranching contact just got off a conference call wherein he was informed that the federal government is sending out letters to all of the flooded out farmers in the Missouri River flood plain and bottoms notifying them that the Army Corps of Engineers will offer to BUY THEIR LAND.

Intentionally flood massive acreage of highly productive farmground. Destroy people’s communities and homes. Catch them while they are desperate and afraid and then swoop in and buy the ground cheap. Those evil sons of bitches.

"Nice farm you've got there; it would be shame if anything happened to it..."

I'd like to see more evidence of this before I get too hot and bothered by it.  But that's an awful lot of farmland affected, and if any significant number of farmers were to take such an offer, it would add up to a whole lot of money, at time when we don't have all that  much extra to throw around.

Maybe they could wangle themselves an exemption from the Army Corps of Engineers manual, the way Blue States have gotten their exemptions from the Cross State Air Pollution Rules...

Thanks to Ted for sending me the link.