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The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of production and convert them to vegetative cover, such as cultivated or native bunchgrasses and grasslands, wildlife and pollinators food and shelter plantings ...
A sub-program of the Conservation Reserve Program, the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) is a state-federal multi-year land retirement United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) program developed by states and targeted to specific state and nationally significant water quality, soil erosion, and wildlife habitat problems.
Additionally, producers with acres enrolled in Continuous CRP set to expire Sept. 30, can now offer acres for re-enrollment. A producer can both enroll new acres into Continuous CRP and re-enroll ...
The maximum enrollment was 28,700,000 acres (116,000 km 2) in 1960. Some elements in the CRP, such as a limit on CRP acres per county, were a response to the Soil Bank experience. Some elements in the CRP, such as a limit on CRP acres per county, were a response to the Soil Bank experience.
A farmer’s crop acreage base is reduced by the portion of cropland placed in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), but increased by CRP base acreage leaving the CRP. Farmers have the choice of base acreage used to calculate Production Flexibility Contract payments for crop year 2002, or the average of acres planted for crop years 1998 ...
The 40 Acre Conservation League acquired more than 650 acres of Sierra forest land in the Emigrant Gap area of Placer County in August, using a $3 million award from a pair of conservation groups ...
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It was first authorized as a pilot program in Title XI of the FY2001 agriculture appropriations legislation (P.L. 106-387) to enroll up to 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) of farmable wetlands smaller than 5 acres (20,000 m 2) in six Upper Midwest states (with no more than 150,000 acres (610 km 2) in a single state) into the Conservation Reserve Program.