USDA opens enrollment as Conservation Reserve grows for first time since 2007

The Conservation Reserve signup that opens on Monday could see landowners idle the largest amount of fragile cropland in years, said Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, although some analysts say lower government payment rates will hold down enrollment. The 2018 farm law raised the acreage ceiling for the reserve, the largest U.S. land-idling program, by 3… » Read More

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