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Goehring asks CRP opening for calving, lambing

BISMARCK, N.D. – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has asked the federal government to allow livestock producers to use Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres to hold cattle and sheep during calving and lambing season.

April 07, 2011

Key conservation program has new signup under way

Area landowners on balance weren’t all that excited about enrolling in the Conservation Reserve Program last fall.

By Jonathan Knutson , March 29, 2011

USDA: Sign up now for CRP

WASHINGTON – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today reminded landowners and producers that a general sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) will begin on March 14, 2011, and continue through April 15, 2011. During the sign-up period, farmers and ranchers may offer eligible land at their county Farm Service Agency (FSA) office. The 2008 Farm Bill authorized USDA to maintain CRP enrollment up to 32 million acres. The Secretary announced the sign-up recently in Omaha, Neb., at Pheasant Fest.

March 08, 2011

Minnesota farmer may be able to recalculate land in CRP base case

FARGO, N.D. — Lyle C. Olson, a Thief River Falls, Minn., farmer who was told in 2010 that he’d lose government “base” acres that he’d acquired a decade ago when his landlord put 200 acres in the Conservation Reserve Program, thinks he’s gotten at least a partial solution.

By Mikkel Pates , March 01, 2011

Stuck in base case

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. — A Pennington County, Minn., farmer says Farm Service Agency unfairly has taken away some of his crop acre bases because of the way the agency handled Conservation Reserve Program contracts 11 years ago.

By Mikkel Pates , February 15, 2011

Conservation Reserve Program opens on March 14

ST. PAUL — Signup for landowners who want to enroll in the Conservation Reserve Program starts March 14.

February 01, 2011

Reduction in CRP acres could change the Kansas environment

TOPEKA, Kan. — A U.S. Department of Agriculture program that has benefited farmers, urban dwellers and wildlife for decades is undergoing some changes that could have a detrimental affect on the Kansas environment.

September 28, 2010

Aug. 27 CRP signup deadline approaching fast

For the first time in four years, landowners nationwide have a crack at enrolling cropland in the Conservation Reserve Program.

By Jonathan Knutson , August 24, 2010

USDA announces Conservation Reserve Program general sign-up

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that a general sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has begun and will continue through Friday, August 27, 2010.

August 18, 2010

Peterson orders investigation on ag fund misuse

WASHINGTON — Behind the long anticipated USDA announcement of a general signup for the Conservation Reserve Program on July 26 lies a convoluted tale of Washington budgetary politics from the Bush administration that has infuriated House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn.

By Jerry Hagstrom , August 03, 2010

Ohio crew’s custom CRP is guaranteed

FORMAN, N.D. — A custom planting company operating in the region offers a “results-based warranty” on its work in seeding native grasses on Conservation Reserve Program and is going gangbusters in southeast North Dakota counties.

By Mikkel Pates , June 29, 2010

New ideas aim to get ‘highest amount of benefits’ from CRP

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — From a tractor seat this spring, Gordon Heber knows what he’ll witness as winter releases its grip on the 1,200 acres of farmland and prairie he owns in Douglas County: a burst of wildlife that includes pheasants, fawns and ducks.

By Thom Gabrukiewicz , March 22, 2010

N.D. ranks fourth in nation in CRP acres

Only three states have more land than North Dakota enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program, set up two decades ago to pay farmers competitive rentals to put, generally, erodible land into grass for environmental reasons as well as to lower crop production, thus putting upward pressure on crop prices.

By Stephen J. Lee , November 04, 2009

3 million acres taken out of conservation program

3 million acres taken out of conservation program More than 3.4 million acres nationwide were taken out of the program in September when the owners' contracts expired. Most of them were in Texas, Colorado and Kansas, but hundreds of thousands of acres also came out in Montana and the Dakotas.

By Roxana Hegeman , November 04, 2009

Conservation confusion

Seeing Conservation Reserve Program acreage be used for hay land isn’t anything new for North Dakota Game and Fish officials, in fact it happens almost every year.

June 04, 2008

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