The U.S. Department of Agriculture has accepted offers for more than 2.5 million acres for enrollment through this year’s Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Signup. Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux says this is double last year’s enrollment. That brings the total acres enrolled across all CRP signups in 2021 to more than 5.3 million acres, which surpasses the agency’s 4-million-acre goal.

Producers and landowners submitted offers for nearly 4 million acres in Grassland CRP, the highest in the signup’s history. And Ducheneaux says that’s tied to changes they made to the suite of CRP programs earlier this year.

He says the interest in working lands conservation leaves room for more innovation with other programs.

FSA accepted 2,250 acres of grasslands for CRP enrollment in Minnesota, 404,000 in South Dakota and 22,700 in North Dakota

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