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After years of litigation, charged government meetings and often heated public comments, two opposing narratives have surfaced regarding the use of Mahaska County farmland for a new airport.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting offers for nearly 2.7 million acres from agricultural producers and private landowners through this year’s Conservation Reserve Program Grassland signup. This program allows

Prospects for moving a farm bill anytime soon are anything but improved with the director of the Congressional Budget Office telling lawmakers he can’t add staff to work on the legislation.

As introduced, the bill seeks to “require the secretary of agriculture to allow emergency haying under the Conservation Reserve Program during the primary nesting season under certain conditions.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting offers for nearly 2.7 million acres from agricultural p...

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For the first time in more than a decade, the Conservation Reserve, which pays landowners an annual rent in exchange for taking fragile cropland out of production, is full, thanks to surging interest in the Grassland CRP option, said the Agriculture Department.

The director of the Congressional Budget Office on Thursday pushed back against concerns that its analysts are taking too long to deliver farm bill cost estimates to the House and Senate Ag committees and said it wasn’t practical to add staff to deal with the legislation.

There have been some questions recently about how to price Conservation Reserve Program or CRP hay.