Iowa Cattlemen’s Association President Craig Moss argues that current CRP policies stifle land access for livestock, calling ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is reminding farmers and landowners to meet upcoming deadlines for key conservation and ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Continuous Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) offers can be submitted during a second batching period that runs through May 1.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mower County had nearly 1,374 acres newly enrolled or re-enrolled under 101 accepted CRP contracts – one behind neighboring ...