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Hearing: CRP revival sought
Feb 28, 2017, 17:27 PM
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A call to restore the Conservation Reserve Program to its glory days has come at the House Ag Committee subcommittee on conservation and forestry – the first to hold a 2018 Farm Bill hearing. Ranking House Ag chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota lamented how CRP acres had to be reduced in the last farm bill to protect the conservation baseline and help offset some of the cuts in the conservation title, “Given what’s going on around the country, I think it’s time for us to figure out how to get back to CRP in this farm bill.”
Dave Nomsen with Pheasants Forever says the CRP program was a bit of a train wreck after 2010.
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