date:Jul 13, 2012
would be called for in a Senate Agriculture Committee plan, which would reduce the C.R.P. area to 25 million acres from 35 million by the end of fiscal 2017. Removing most of the prime farmland from the C.R.P. would equate to a program cap of about 21 million acres, the N.G.F.A. said.
The study supported continued use of C.R.P. for areas that are truly environmentally sensitive. With budgetary pressures, rising demand for feed, feed and biofuels worldwide, the need is crucial to remove land in