The House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to evaluate the effectiveness of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and Farm Service Agency. FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux stressed the importance of the CRP program. In 2022, 5.1 million acres entered into CRP. Ducheneaux said the uptick in CRP acres shows how successful the program has become. “The 2018 farm bill established a rising acreage gap for CRP that tops out at 27 million acres this year and when we came to town, we saw that as a target.”
