Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 4/16/21


The USDA is days away from announcing “greater opportunities” for landowners to take fragile farmland out of production in exchange for an annual payment, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday. Since early February, the Biden administration has been mulling how to stop a 13-year decline in enrollment in the Conservation Reserve, the largest U.S. land set-aside program. Speaking on Illinois public radio, Vilsack said that the Conservation Reserve could play a role in President Biden’s plan to make American agriculture the first in the world to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases.

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