USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program pays more than $1.77 billion to America’s producers in support of conservation and climate-smart agriculture

Agricultural producers and landowners have chosen conservation on more than 23 million acres of private land nationwide

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued more than $1.77 billion this year to agricultural producers and landowners through its Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a critical piece of the Department’s efforts to support climate-smart agriculture and forestry on working lands. R…