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2013 reporting of prevented planting extended to July 15

ST. PAUL, MINN, – Farmers must report prevented planting acreage to their local USDA-Farm Service Agency office by July 15, 2013. FSA State Executive Director Debra Crusoe stated, “Due to an unseasonably cool and wet spring, planting has been significantly delayed or prevented in many areas of Minnesota this crop year.” “Farmers must remember to visit their local FSA office before July 15 to report all their crop acreage, including that which has been prevented from planting.” Crusoe said.

By USDA Farm Service Agency , June 10, 2013

CRP suggestions

By Jonathan Knutson , April 29, 2013

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CRP faces challenges

CRP faces challenges The longstanding Conservation Reserve Program is one of America's most important farm programs. But CRP - in which area farmers soon will have another chance to enroll - is losing acres in the Upper Midwest because of attractive crop prices. Federal budget problems also cloud the program's future.

By Jonathan Knutson , April 29, 2013

Leave easement law alone

A cap on the number of years for conservation easements in South Dakota is too restrictive

By Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. , February 04, 2013

N.D. FSA announces CRP signup 43 results

Fargo, N.D. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced that it will accept 3.9 million acres offered nationwide under Farm Service Agency's 43rd Conservation Reserve Program general signup. In North Dakota, 190 thousand acres were accepted into CRP.

By North Dakota Farm Service Agency , May 30, 2012

Conservation programs key to farm bill

HUDSON, S.D. — One of the American farmer’s primary responsibilities is protecting our farmland’s soil and water.

By Dan Gillespie , May 07, 2012

Wildlife habitat: here today, gone tomorrow?

WATERTOWN, S.D. — When I was a youngster growing up in Watertown, S.D., during the Soil Bank Program days in the late 1950s and early 1960s, we could go out at noon and easily have our pheasant limit and be back in a half hour to watch the Vikings game.

By Gary Howey , April 30, 2012

Stabenow, Roberts release farm bill proposal

WASHINGTON — Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and ranking member Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, recently released a farm bill proposal and announced that the committee will begin consideration of the bill on Wednesday.

By Jerry Hagstrom , April 24, 2012

ND Senators promote RLAP

ND Senators promote RLAP BISMARCK, N.D. — Cooperation with southern Republican senators representing peanut, cotton and rice growers will be a key to whether a Revenue Loss Assistance Program can be passed in the Senate, said officials gathered for a roundtable on the 2012 farm bill.

By Mikkel Pates , April 09, 2012

CRP general sign-up deadline extended

WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Administrator Bruce Nelson today announced that the sign-up deadline for the Conservation Reserve Program has been extended to April 13.

By USDA-FSA , April 04, 2012

MFU to hold farm bill listening session with Baucus

MFU to hold farm bill listening session with Baucus GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Montana Farmers Union president Alan Merrill announced that MFU will hold a farm bill listening session with U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., in Great Falls, Mont., on April 2, in conjunction with the MFU quarterly board meeting.

By Montana Farmers Union , March 26, 2012

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EWG: tie conservation to crop insurance

WASHINGTON — Congress should attach conservation compliance requirements to subsidized crop insurance in the next farm bill but should only use the lowering of the farmer premium subsidy as a penalty for those who do not comply rather than making farmers ineligible for coverage, Environmental Working Group officials said March 15.

By Jerry Hagstrom , March 26, 2012

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CRP signup deadline April 6

By Agweek staff and wire reports , March 26, 2012

Ryan budget cuts $180 billion from farm bill programs

Ryan budget cuts $180 billion from farm bill programs WASHINGTON — Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said March 21 that the budget proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would cut the Agriculture Department budget by $180 billion over 10 years and hurt programs important to North Dakota while other Democrats and farm leaders also criticized the Ryan proposal.

By Jerry Hagstrom , March 22, 2012

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Conrad's farm bill concerns

Conrad's farm bill concerns WASHINGTON — The issue of whether proposed farm bill commodity programs would work in the Northern Plains remain to be resolved in Senate Agriculture Committee negotiations, Jim Miller, a former Agriculture Secretary for farm and foreign agricultural services and key aide to Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said March 13 in an interview with Agweek.

By Jerry Hagstrom , March 19, 2012

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