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More CRP flexibility in Dakotas, Montana
Jun 29, 2017, 17:24 PM
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The USDA is offering more flexibility to farmers and ranchers in the Dakotas and Montana as drought worsens in that area. The agency says it will allow certain Conservation Reserve Program contract holders to donate their hay to livestock producers in drought-stricken counties. The agency also opened CRP land to grazing for any county within 150 miles of a county already approved for emergency grazing.
As they’ve been allowed to do in the past, CRP contract holders can sell hay from that land with a 25 percent reduction in rental payment.
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