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  2. Conservation Reserve Program - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Base acreage - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the ...

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    This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).

  5. Land use statistics by country - Wikipedia

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    Countries are ranked by their total cultivated land area, which is the sum of the total arable land area and total area of permanent crops. Arable land is defined as being cultivated for crops like wheat , maize , and rice , all of which are replanted after each harvest.

  6. Bill Gates says he now owns 1 out of every 4000 acres of all ...

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    Recent estimates are that Bill Gates owns around 270,000 acres of farmland around the United States. Gates himself has said in a recent Reddit AMA that he owns roughly 1/4000 of all farmland in ...

  7. List of countries and dependencies by area - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories. All 193 member states of the United Nations plus the two observer states are given a rank ...

  8. Bipartisan team to limit Chinese purchase of U.S. farmland

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    Sens. Ernst and Stabenow hope to limit China’s ability to buy U.S. farmland and force the U.S. to weigh stripping some foreign landowners of their real estate.

  9. Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program - Wikipedia

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    USDA has reserved 4 million acres (16,000 km 2) from the authorized 39,200,000-acre (159,000 km 2) total to enroll through either this option or the continuous enrollment option. Currently, 26 states have approved CREPs, and through March 2005, more than 645,000 acres (2,610 km 2) had been enrolled under this option. As of June 2005, proposals ...