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More CRP acres possible in 2018 farm bill
Dec 4, 2017, 22:24 PM
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The ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee says there might be more Conservation Reserve Program acres in the next farm bill. Not many changes are in the 2018 farm bill, according to Collin Peterson (D-Minn.)
“And the main reason is we don’t have any money,” Peterson told Missouri Farm Bureau members Sunday. “There’s not whole lot you can do, when you don’t have any money.”
A notable change from the current farm bill, however, “if I have anything to say about it,” he said, there will be an upward adjustment to the current CRP acreage limit of 24 million acres.
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