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National Farmers Union calling for CRP enhancements

The National Farmers Union (NFU) is calling on USDA to enhance the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).

NFU Vice President Chandler Goule…

“We want farmers to be able to enroll that entire field, but as long as 75 percent of the field is actually qualified for CRP.  We also want farmers to be able to transfer land from CRP to the Agriculture Conservation Easement program without any type of penalty.”

He tells Brownfield NFU would like to see USDA give participating producers more freedom to utilize the CRP program that best suits their land.

“Basically we want to be able to maintain the working land conservation program and make them a little more flexible and user-friendly.”

NFU president Roger Johnson wrote Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack last week and Goule says many of the ideas submitted were first discussed while working on the latest Farm Bill.