USDA says no discussions about emergency crops in Conservation Reserve

The USDA is not considering suggestions that it open the land-idling Conservation Reserve for cropping this year to stabilize grain supplies following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, said press secretary Kate Waters on Thursday. “There are no immediate discussions to that effect.” Economist Joe Glauber of the IFPRI think tank predicted that only a relatively small… » Read More

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