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 ...

An upland bird habitat buffer on land owned by farmer David Roehm that was part of USDA's Conservation Reserve Program in 2015. (USDA photo) USDA is accepting new applications for the Conservation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 has allocated more than $1.77 billion this year to agricultural producers and landowners through its Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). This program plays a major role in the USDA’s efforts to ...

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 ...