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By JOHN JEFFRIES
Soil Comerration Technician
With only a few months to go until the Dec. 31 Farm Bill implementation deadline, fanners who have not already done so will be scrambling to put conservation plans into practice.
The 1985 Food Security Act and the 1990 Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act both encourage the reduction of soil erosion, the retention of wetlands, and the protection of environmentally sensitive cropland.
Conservation compliance applies to farmers or landowners who continue to plant annually tilled crops
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