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 ...

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.

For the better part of three years, conservation groups across America have been watching the Farm Bill situation with the kind of grinding anxiety usually reserved for a long drought season. The lan ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting 2.2 million acres into the Conservation Reserve Program for 2026. Through CRP, USDA’s Farm Service Agency offers agricultural producers and landowners ...

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 ...

The USDA has accepted 2.2 million acres into the 2026 Conservation Reserve Program, providing farmers and landowners with ...

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 ...