USDA pilot offers 30-year contract for Conservation Reserve
Since 1985, the Conservation Reserve has paid landowners an annual rent to idle environmentally fragile land under contracts that last for 10 or 15 years. Now a pilot program, opening for enrollment this summer, will offer a 30-year contract in the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay regions — but only to landowners with expiring Conservation… » Read More
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