About 3 million acres are enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program in North Dakota, but many of the contracts will expire within the next few years. Given the recent increase in commodity prices, ...

The Agriculture Department has launched a new application round for the Conservation Reserve Program under both the General and Continuous signup rules. Dates for Grasslands CRP signup will be ...

DES MOINES — North Iowans can extend their existing Conservation Reserve Program contracts by contacting their local Farm Service Agency in early August. The offer applies to landowners whose CRP ...

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) Authorization for the Conservation Reserve Program and ...

WASHINGTON — Farmers and ranchers with expiring Conservation Reserve Program contracts may now re-enroll in certain CRP continuous signup practices or, if eligible, select a one-year contract ...

NOTE: This column is copyrighted material; therefore reproduction or retransmission is prohibited under U.S. copyright laws. Enrollment of more than 800,000 acres of land into the Conservation Reserve ...

Jost, the state CRP specialist, said North Dakota CRP contracts in general haven't fared well when they've come up for renewal in recent years. Only 10 percent of North Dakota contracts were accepted ...

Nebraska farmers and ranchers with certain Conservation Reserve Program contracts expiring this year may extend those contracts for an additional year, according to the state executive director of the ...

MINOT (AP) - The amount of North Dakota land enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program is increasing slightly this fall, federal officials say. The federal Farm Service Agency, which ...

JUNEAU - The Dodge County Farm Service Agency will begin notifying certain agricultural producers with Conservation Reserve Program contracts expiring in 2007 that they may extend or re-enroll their ...

We are building on a generation of hunters who grew up with the Conservation Reserve Program. Just about half of that generation has never known a North Dakota landscape that did not have at least a ...

WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Friday it would allow producers to extend or modify contracts on nearly 40 percent of the acres expiring in the Conservation ...