The latest extension of the 2018 Farm Bill expired Sept. 30, leaving agricultural producers and the bill’s signature conservation measure, the Conservation Reserve Program, in limbo.
Conservation officials from several groups are imploring Congress to pass a new bipartisan Farm Bill by year’s end, including adopting the Senate’s version of CRP, which has several provisions that modernize and improve the program by making it more attractive to producers, they say.
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