Landowners and producers enrolled in 21.9 million acres of the Conservation Reserve Program should begin receiving $1.68 billion in annual rental payments, the Department of Agriculture said Thursday.

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 Deputy Under Secretary Lanon Baccam on Thursday announced that beginning Jan. 9, 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will offer an early termination opportunity for certain ...

USDA announced this spring an expanded Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and upped annual payments to producers in hopes of increasing the acreage amount of environmentally sensitive land removed ...

A mallard's nest is tucked away in tall grass in a North Dakota field rented by the Conservation Reserve Program. An abandoned church in North Dakota. Critics of the CRP blame the program for putting ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program is now 30 years old. With the stroke of a pen on Dec. 23, 1985, President Ronald Reagan committed the nation to a program that removed ...

The United States Department of Agriculture has announced an open sign-up period for the Conservation Reserve Program through Feb. 20. This will be the first sign-up period for the General CRP program ...

USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program is one of the largest federally administered private land retirement programs. Under CRP, in exchange for annual rental payments ranging from $10 per acre to nearly ...

DES MOINES — Iowa land owners can help restore habitat for declining grassland birds, migratory birds, butterflies and pollinators through a new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) initiative that ...

This year, instead of crops, 34 million acres of American farmland will produce tall grass, pheasants and ducks. That's thanks to the Conservation Reserve Program, a USDA program to protect soil, ...