Crop Prices Cut into Conservation
by Katherine Glover
The Environment Report

With grain prices hitting record highs, a lot of farmers are removing land from the federal Conservation Reserve Program, which pays landowners to idle land for conservation. The US Department of Agriculture, which runs the program, says the CRP is still in good shape, but some conservationists disagree.

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Posted on Monday, March 24th, 2008 at 1:59 pm