One-fifth of land in Conservation Reserve enrolled two decades ago
The Conservation Reserve is a long-term farmland retirement program that pays an annual rent to landowners who idle fragile land under contracts that run at least 10 years. The USDA’s Farm Service Agency says more than one-fifth of the 24 million acres now in the reserve entered it 20 or more years ago, which means… » Read More
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