General sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program started Monday and will remain open through April 7. “CRP has and continues to be a great fit for farmers with less productive or marginal cropland ...

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) USDA is accepting new applications for the Conservation ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced several Conservation Reserve Program enrollment opportunities for agricultural producers and landowners. USDA’s Farm Service Agency is accepting offers ...

USDA will hold a general signup for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Jan. 31-March 31 and a Grassland CRP signup April 4-May 13. USDA said 4.6 million acres were enrolled in CRP during 2021, ...

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 ...

The Conservation Reserve Program, a key NRCS program for wildlife, is open for sign up through June 6. The program supports a vital part of Minnesota’s heritage and economy, hunting. Estimates show ...

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (USDA-FSA) has announced a new opportunity for private landowners and producers to enroll in the General Signup for the Conservation ...

USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program is one of the largest federally administered private land retirement programs. Under CRP, in exchange for annual rental payments ranging from $10 per acre to nearly ...

In the 1950s, bird hunters experienced burgeoning pheasant populations in many parts of the country (including southern Idaho). This increase resulted from the Soil Bank Program authorized by the ...

Doug Leier is an outreach biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Reach him at [email protected]. WEST FARGO – Hunters this past fall in North Dakota had more than 800,000 acres of land ...