USDA Reopens Continuous CRP Signup

From Farm Service Agency

USDA’s Farm Service Agency will accept applications beginning June 3 for certain practices under the continuous Conservation Reserve Program signup and will offer extensions for expiring CRP contracts. The 2018 Farm Bill reauthorized CRP, one of the country’s largest conservation programs.

FSA stopped accepting applications last fall for the continuous CRP signup when the 2014 Farm Bill authority expired. Since passage of the 2018 Farm Bill last December, FSA administrator Richard Fordyce said FSA has carefully analyzed the language and determined that a limit...