Political Quotes

“The Conservation Reserve Program has sparked major improvements in water quality, wildlife habitat and wetlands. However, high crop and land prices are spurring landowners to once again pull millions of vulnerable acres back under the plow as their CRP leases expire. In the last 10 years, we've seen a number of acres equal to the area of the State of Indiana taken out of the Conservation Reserve Program and put back into production. This means that the CRP's environmental benefits are not well leveraged, and taxpayer dollars don't earn the return they should because they've spent 5 years protecting land simply to have it disappear at the end of the easement period. This amendment makes a set of simple revenue-neutral changes to the CRP to provide more lasting protection of water, wildlife, and soil, and to make sure that we are fully leveraging Federal spending. It requires, to the extent possible, 20 percent of the funds dedicated to the Conservation Reserve Program to be used in the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program, the CCRP, and the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, CREP. These programs are a subset of the Conservation Reserve Program and help leverage State matching funds to produce even greater conservation benefits.…”