New applicants were less likely than returning applicants to enter CRP through Continuous Signup in the 3 years following rejection from the 2016 General Signup
- by Andrew B. Rosenberg and Bryan Pratt
- 4/8/2025
USDA, Economic Research Service researchers examined how landowners used land that had been offered to the Conservation Reserve Program but was rejected. They estimated that almost half of such acreage was put into row-crop production, a fourth went to grass, and the rest to mixed forage or were left fallow.