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Crops account for 46 percent of subsequent land use in fields rejected form the Conservation Reserve Program’s 2016 General Signup

  • Conservation Programs
Treemap chart showing proportions of uses for land rejected from the 2016 General Signup of the Conservation Reserve Program. Uses consisted of grass, wheat, mixed forage, fallow or idle land, soybeans, corn, and other crops.

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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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