WASHINGTON, May 5, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says USDA will enroll more than 800,000 acres in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) this year, while expressing hope that Congress will ...

Landowners convert marginal cropland into vegetative cover that improves water quality, prevents erosion, and restores ...

USDA has allocated more than $1.77 billion this year to agricultural producers and landowners through its Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). This program plays a major role in the USDA’s efforts to ...

General sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program started Monday and will remain open through April 7. “CRP has and continues to be a great fit for farmers with less productive or marginal cropland ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program is now 30 years old. With the stroke of a pen on Dec. 23, 1985, President Ronald Reagan committed the nation to a program that removed ...

May 18—Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is partnering with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) to introduce a conservation reform bill that hits close to home for southeast Iowa farmers. The legislation, titled ...

The loss of more than half of the acres of land in a popular conservation program in North Dakota has triggered what Eric Lindstrom, government affairs representative for Ducks Unlimited in North ...

Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary Lanon Baccam on Thursday announced that beginning Jan. 9, 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will offer an early termination opportunity for certain ...

The United States Department of Agriculture has announced an open sign-up period for the Conservation Reserve Program through Feb. 20. This will be the first sign-up period for the General CRP program ...

With Congress set to debate a new farm bill next year, there have been calls to either eliminate or dramatically reduce the Conservation Reserve Program to increase the number of acres for commodity ...

The 30 plus-year-old Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) as USDA’s flagship conservation program has been in the news of late in Northern Plains states, as farmers and ranchers search for critically ...