USDA expects to enroll ‘a large number of acres’ in Conservation Reserve

The USDA will hold its first “general” signup for the land-idling Conservation Reserve Program under the 2018 farm bill in early December, and “we expect to enroll a large number of acres,” said Deputy Agriculture Secretary Steve Censky on Thursday. The 2018 law raised the ceiling for enrollment to 27 million acres from the 24 million-acre… » Read More

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