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benefits of the proposed enrollment versus the costs of USD A. •’ Targeted areas for the CRP under the new 1990 Farm Act include not only highly erodible land, but also cropland which affects water quality or which is located within established wellhead protection areas. The Chesapeake Bay Watershed is one of three priority areas in the United States which have been targeted for the current signup.
It is riot necessary to bid entire fields into the CRP. Filter strips, sod waterways, shelter belts and contour grass strips are eligible. Some producers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed may be able to enroll buffer strips mandated by the Chesapeake Bay program. All cropland in the watershed which has been farmed two of the five years from 1986-90 and which has been owned
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