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Full Committee Hearing

Oversight of the Conservation Reserve Program

Date:
Time: 10:00am
Location: Room 328-A Russell Building

Subcommittee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) convened the hearing as a review of the Conservation Reserve Program.

CRP, the Conservation Reserve Program, was created in the 1985 Farm Bill to reduce erosion on 40 to 45 million acres of cropland.
Landowners sign contracts agreeing to keep retired lands in approved conserving uses for 10-15 years. In exchange, the landowner receives an annual rental payment, cost-share payments to establish permanent vegetative cover and technical assistance.

More than 28 million acres of CRP contract lands are scheduled to expire between 2007
and 2010. Sixteen million of these will expire in 2007 alone, coinciding with the
scheduled statutory reauthorization of the farm bill.

Audio replay of the one-and a half-hour hearing.

There is no video broadcast for this event.

Panel 1

  • Mr. James Little

    Administrator
    Farm Service Agency
    Washington, DC

Panel 2

  • Mr. Sherman Reese

    President
    National Association of Wheat Growers
    Echo, Oregon

  • Mr. Kendall Keith

    President
    National Grain and Feed Association
    Washington, DC
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  • Ms. Krysta Harden

    Chief Executive Officer
    National Association of Conservation Districts
    Washington, DC
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  • Mr. Jeffery Nelson

    Diretor of Operations
    Ducks Unlimited, Inc. -- Great Plains Regional Office
    Bismarck, North Dakota

  • Mr. Dan Forster

    Director
    Georgia Department of Natural Resources
    Social Circle, Georgia