USDA pushes taking more land out of production

The USDA is nearing an announcement for “greater opportunities” for landowners to take farmland out of production in exchange for an annual payment, according to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack last week. Since early February, the Biden administration has been mulling how to stop a 13-year decline in enrollment in the Conservation Reserve, the largest U.S. land set-aside program...

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