A bipartisan Senate bill would accelerate a shift in the Conservation Reserve Program toward grasslands and smaller, environmentally sensitive parcels and away from the larger tracts that have been ...

The USDA has accepted 2.2 million acres into the 2026 Conservation Reserve Program, providing farmers and landowners with ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting 2.2 million acres into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) for 2026 ...

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 plans to make major changes in the Conservation Reserve Program, or CRP, America's best-known agricultural conservation program. The revisions include higher payment ...

What a difference a couple of marketing years makes when it comes to CRP enrollment. In the fall of 2019, as farmers were struggling with lower commodity prices and an extremely uncertain export ...

Judith Puncochar prunes a tree on her farm outside of Saint Paul, Nebraska. Most of Puncochar's farm is enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, a federal land conservation initiative that she ...

Researchers challenge the Conservation Reserve Program status quo to mitigate fossil fuels. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 30, 2026 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 02 / 210223110729.htm ...

Jan. 23—WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program signup. USDA's Farm Service Agency encourages agricultural ...

Buried inside of a voluminous piece of legislation that gets dug up and dusted off every five years is a bunch of conservation programs that promote and support the creation and protection of healthy ...