The Agriculture Department paid landowners more than $1.77 billion in 2023 for the more than 23 million acres of private land in the Conservation Reserve Program. According to a Monday USDA release, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Conservation Reserve Program allows landowners to make the most of their ground. Now, new landowners will have the chance to enroll in the program. During the National Pheasant ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — From March 4 through March 29, a conservation program focused on making sure farmers and agricultural producers have the tools necessary to maintain their land has opened its ...

The Department of Agriculture is boosting enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program but being less stringent on environmental measurements. A program that rewards farmers for turning ...

Bipartisan Senate bill aims to improve the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Proposed changes include raising the maximum annual payment for landowners from $50,000 to $125,000 and providing ...

Landowners in Richland and Tensas parishes have an opportunity to participate in a new conservation initiative aimed at ...

Jan. 23—WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program signup. USDA's Farm Service Agency encourages agricultural ...

By Constance Malleret In the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, locals tap rubber and extract Brazil ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana farmers were far less successful this year than usual in getting acres accepted into the ...

Monday was the first day farmers in the state could begin enrolling environmentally-sensitive land into one of two of the nation’s conservation reserve programs.Agricultural producers could begin ...

The programs authorized in the farm bill’s conservation title could significantly mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from the US agricultural sector and help farmers adapt to a changing climate. But to ...