The $2.14 billion in payments is divided as follows: Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and CRP Transition Incentive Program (CRP TIP): More than $1.7 billion. Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today USDA will open CRP enrollment with higher payment rates, new incentives and a more targeted focus on the program’s role in climate change ...

Thomas Eich, a fifth-generation farmer who rurns the Kankakee Valley Homestead near Walkerton, Indiana, relies on income from the Conservation Reserve Program as a protective buffer between the ...