Conservation Reserve Program Modernization Act

This bill changes the federal Conservation Reserve Program, which pays landowners to take farmland out of production for conservation. It adds definitions, such as a list of conservation buffer practices, and rewrites which land can be enrolled, including cropland with lower-quality soils, land used for buffers and wildlife habitat, grazing grasslands, and leftover parts of fields that cannot be farmed. It sets cost-sharing payments at 50 percent of the cost of approved practices like planting cover and fencing. It caps rental payments for land that is reenrolled, starting at 85 percent of the county average rate and dropping 10 percentage points with each later reenrollment, and sets rental rate limits based on soil class.

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Sponsors

• Brad Finstad Republican sponsor
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