USDA processes pending eligible CRP continuous enrollment

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced recently that it will process many pending eligible offers for land enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program and it will temporarily suspend accepting most new offers until later in the 2018 fiscal year.
    “All current, eligible CRP continuous enrollment offers made through Sept. 30 — except for those made under the Pollinator Habitat Initiative — will be approved,” said Steven J. Peterson, Acting Farm Service Agency Administrator. “Additionally, we are temporarily suspending acceptance of most offers going forward to provide time to review CRP allocation levels, and to avoid exceeding the statutory cap of 24 million acres.”
    The CRP acreage cap is a provision of the 2014 Farm Bill. Current enrollment is about 23.5 million acres nationwide. USDA is accepting all pending continuous enrollment offers that were made beginning May 4 and extending through Sept. 30, except Pollinator Habitat Initiative offers. Pollinator acreage offers are being declined because the program has met its acreage enrollment goal.
 

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