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 ...

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 ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it is opening enrollment for the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program from May 4 through May 29, 2026. The USDA’s Farm Service ...

The Conservation Reserve Program can be a way to guarantee income from marginally productive land while improving the soil and providing wildlife habitat. With the current high commodity prices, ...

USDA has announced a sign-up period for the Conservation Reserve Program in 2025 that will extend from now until June 6 at local Farm Service Agency offices. The current CRP sign-up period will be for ...

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 ...

USDA will begin distributing approximately $2.14 billion in payments to eligible agricultural producers and landowners through key conservation and safety-net programs. The $2.14 billion in payments ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today USDA will open CRP enrollment with higher payment rates, new incentives and a more targeted focus on the program’s role in climate change mitigation.

The land John Walter has had in the Conservation Reserve Program for the past 35 years exhibits healthy soil and active wildlife. Resides In: Ankeny, Iowa & Yuba City, California. John began his ...