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In 2016, the CRP Signup rejection percentage increased as the Environmental Benefits Index (EBI) threshold increased

  • Conservation Programs
Line chart comparing the Environmental Benefits Index threshold with the Conservation Reserve Program rejection rate from 1997 to 2021.

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USDA, Economic Research Service researchers examined how landowners used land that had been offered to the Conservation Reserve Program but was rejected. They estimated that almost half of such acreage was put into row-crop production, a fourth went to grass, and the rest to mixed forage or were left fallow.

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