The USDA announced it is issuing $1.68 billion in payments to agricultural producers enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
“CRP is one of the many ‘tools’ that USDA offers to producers and private landowners to help best manage sensitive lands,” said Richard Fordyce, administrator of USDA’s Farm Service Agency. “Lands enrolled in this program conserve soil, improve water quality, provide habitat for wildlife, sequester carbon, and benefit agricultural operations.”
The program will mark its 35th anniversary in December, with 21.9 million acres currently enrolled in CRP. CRP participants with contracts effective beginning on Oct. 1, 2020, will receive their first annual rental payment in October 2021.
