USDA will allow Conservation Reserve Program participants who are in the final year of their CRP contract to request voluntary termination of their contract following the end of the primary
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday, May 26, it will allow Conservation Reserve Program participants who are in the final year of their CRP contract to request voluntary termination of their contract following the end of the primary nesting season for fiscal year 2022.
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Marilyn DeMeyer says her childhood town was engulfed by development over just a few decades.
Now sheâs worried the same could happen to her 300-acre farm in Monroe County, New York, not far from Rochester and the shore of Lake Ontario.
Fortunately for her, a number of government programs exist to preserve the stateâs farmland.
Agriculture is the No. 1 industry in New York state, and yet our prime farmland is being lost to poorly planned development at a frightening pace,â said DeMeyer, who farms with her son, Richard. âWe really have to be proactive if weâre going to feed our growing population, not push viable farms out of business and farming to marginal lands.â