AMES, Iowa — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has announced that USDA will accept 1.7 million acres offered under the 45th Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general sign-up.
The department received nearly 28,000 offers on more than 1.9 million acres of land, demonstrating CRP’s continuing appeal as one of the nation’s most successful voluntary programs for soil, water and wildlife conservation, the department said. USDA has enrolled nearly 12 million acres in new CRP contracts since 2009. Currently, there are more than 26.9 million acres enrolled on 700,000 contracts.
“For 27 years. . .
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