Conservation reseve program history

An official website of the United States government. Have a Question? What is the Conservation Reserve Program? Information Knowledge Article. The Conservation Reserve Program reduces soil erosion, protects the nation's ability to produce food and fiber, reduces sedimentation in streams and lakes, improves water quality, establishes wildlife habitat, and enhances forest and wetland resources it encourages farmers to convert highly erodible cropland or other environmentally sensitive acreage to vegetative cover, such as tame or native grasses, wildlife plantings, trees, filter strips, or riparian buffers.

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The modern version of CRP combines cropland acreage reductions with an explicit focus that environmentally-sensitive and highly erodible lands should be retired from production. To illustrate this interaction between CRP and crop prices, Figure 2 compares the CRP acreage cap, acres under contract and marketing year average prices for wheat and corn since the program was recreated in As prices improved, Congress again lowered the acreage cap in the FCE Act of , this time to 32 million acres.

Finally, the Agricultural Act of reduced the acreage cap from This back-and-forth over acres reflects some of the policy issues for CRP. Since the Farm Bill recreated the program, strong crop prices have resulted in pressure to reduce CRP acres and the acreage cap. High prices are generally followed by relatively weaker prices. When prices are relatively weak they create pressure to retire acres in the CRP and on Congress to increase the acreage cap. Logically, if prices are low CRP might provide a better return on some lands through the Federal rental payments but it can be difficult to compete with production returns when prices are high.

CRP contracts, however, are long-term 10 or 15 years but prices and production returns operate on much shorter time horizons. Finally, crop prices and production returns are also not the measure of programs designed to protect and conserve natural resources such as soil, water and habitat.