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 ...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Conservation Reserve Program allows landowners to make the most of their ground. Now, new landowners will have the chance to enroll in the program. During the National Pheasant ...

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 ...

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 ...

We examine the U.S. Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) enrollment design while accounting for the CRP's interactions with the federal crop insurance program. We find that the current CRP is not ...

South Dakota landowners contributed a significant number of acres to a federally-funded conservation program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday. About 404,000 acres in the state were ...