General sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program started Monday and will remain open through April 7. “CRP has and continues to be a great fit for farmers with less productive or marginal cropland ...

An upland bird habitat buffer on land owned by farmer David Roehm that was part of USDA's Conservation Reserve Program in 2015. (USDA photo) USDA is accepting new applications for the Conservation ...

May 18—Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is partnering with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) to introduce a conservation reform bill that hits close to home for southeast Iowa farmers. The legislation, titled ...

Judith Puncochar prunes a tree on her farm outside of Saint Paul, Nebraska. Most of Puncochar's farm is enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, a federal land conservation initiative that she ...

USDA has announced a sign-up period for the Conservation Reserve Program in 2025 that will extend from now until June 6 at local Farm Service Agency offices. The current CRP sign-up period will be for ...

The United States Department of Agriculture has announced an open sign-up period for the Conservation Reserve Program through Feb. 20. This will be the first sign-up period for the General CRP program ...

Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary Lanon Baccam on Thursday announced that beginning Jan. 9, 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will offer an early termination opportunity for certain ...

GRAND FORKS. N.D.-David Burkland walks through a field of knee-high corn on a late-June morning and studies it with experienced eyes. Its condition isn't ideal, but he's mostly satisfied-especially ...

DES MOINES — Iowa land owners can help restore habitat for declining grassland birds, migratory birds, butterflies and pollinators through a new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) initiative that ...