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 ...

As Congress writes a new Farm Bill, lawmakers are working across the aisle to forge solutions that simultaneously help feed America and address our growing conservation challenges. An indispensable ...

Though the 2018 Farm Bill doesn’t make major revisions to federal conservation programs and policies, it includes “subtle changes” that could limit interest in the widely used Conservation Reserve ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced several Conservation Reserve Program enrollment opportunities for agricultural producers and landowners. USDA’s Farm Service Agency is accepting offers ...

NOTE: This column is copyrighted material; therefore reproduction or retransmission is prohibited under U.S. copyright laws. Enrollment of more than 800,000 acres of land into the Conservation Reserve ...

Last fall, for the fourth straight year, Thief River Falls, Minn., farmer Ken Asp chose not to reenroll some of his farmland in the Conservation Reservation Program. Enrolling the land into CRP made ...

USDA announced this spring an expanded Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and upped annual payments to producers in hopes of increasing the acreage amount of environmentally sensitive land removed ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — From March 4 through March 29, a conservation program focused on making sure farmers and agricultural producers have the tools necessary to maintain their land has opened its ...

TOWN OF FOUNTAIN PRAIRIE -- You don't have to run a combine through a field of switch grass and black-eyed Susans. Planting and harvesting pine trees takes place only every couple of decades, rather ...

USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program is one of the largest federally administered private land retirement programs. Under CRP, in exchange for annual rental payments ranging from $10 per acre to nearly ...

This week, the USDA announced that more than 2.5 million acres of American land have been accepted in the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), which involves payments to farmers to remove ...