With Congress set to debate a new farm bill next year, there have been calls to either eliminate or dramatically reduce the Conservation Reserve Program to increase the number of acres for commodity ...

Dave Nomsen is vice president of government affairs for Pheasants Forever. He led that group's efforts to retain key conservation provisions in the recently passed federal farm bill. In the interview ...

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 ...

Apr. 14—OSKALOOSA — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) visited Mahaska County Thursday morning, where he made a stop at the Mahaska Communication Group in Oskaloosa to discuss topics ranging from this ...

The Agriculture Department is shifting the way it promotes the Conservation Reserve Program, placing greater emphasis on allowing farmers to use enrolled land for haying and grazing, according to ...

During a House Agriculture Conservation, Research and Biotechnology Subcommittee hearing, lawmakers discussed concerns about the ability of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Farm ...

Conservation programs that have been included in farm bills since the New Deal originally set out to protect the country’s agricultural productive capacity and to provide income support for important ...

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) Authorization for the Conservation Reserve Program and ...

Farmers would be wise to check their inboxes in the coming months. Pre-filled applications for USDA financial assistance will ...

When Farm Journal’s late staff economist John Marten explained the-then new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the mid-1980s, he did so with a clever memory tool. “CRP isn’t complicated,” Marten ...

A mallard's nest is tucked away in tall grass in a North Dakota field rented by the Conservation Reserve Program. An abandoned church in North Dakota. Critics of the CRP blame the program for putting ...

As pheasant and duck hunters prepare for their upcoming seasons, they'll do so knowing that their success depends in part on policies hashed out in the nation's capital. Specifically, the federal Farm ...