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Virginia fanners who want to enroll their highly erodible cropland into the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) have until Friday, Feb. 27, to place their bids.
This is the fourth sigh-up period for the program, which waa enacted in late 1985,,£o epcourage farmers-io stop growing: cr^ps on highly erodible cropland* Under CRP, farmers agree to cease crop production for a Id-year period and to plant their land in grass and trees.
In return, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pays annual rental payments to the farmer, as well as up to 50 percent of the cost of establishing permanent vegetative cover on the land.
This year’s sign-up has an added incentive, reported a Virginia Tech, Extension specialist. “In addition to the annual rental payment, a onetime bonus will be paid to produc
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