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.

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 ...

Iowa cattle producers are urging Congress to allow more cattle to graze on conservation land, arguing that doing so could ...

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 ...

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 (USDA) today announced that agricultural producers and private landowners can enroll in the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (Grassland CRP) starting ...

With less than a month left in his time as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., has unveiled a bill that would expand the acreage of the Conservation Reserve ...

Ashland County farmers can get maps for acreage reporting, apply for farm storage loans, and enroll in Grassland CRP.

NOTE: This column is copyrighted material; therefore reproduction or retransmission is prohibited under U.S. copyright laws. The 24-million-acre cap for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) for ...