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Conservation Reserve Program: Status and Current Issues (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date May 8, 2001
Report Number 97-673ENR
Authors Jeffrey Zinn
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), enacted in 1985, enables producers to retire highly erodible or environmentally sensitive cropland, usually for 10 years. Congress reauthorized and amended the CRP in the 1996 Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act (P.L. 104-127; 16 U.S.C. 3811, et seq.). The law caps enrollment at 36.4 million acres and makes funding mandatory through the commodity Credit Corporation.