date:May 26, 2012
During a five-week signup, landowners submitted nearly 48,000 offers on more than 4.5 million acres of land. The agency has enrolled nearly 12 million acres in the CRP since 2009. Currently, there are more than 29.6 million acres enrolled on more than 736,000 contracts.
A local USDA office told Agriculture.com that the announcement was preliminary information, and that the state and county lists of landowners accepted into the sign-up are not yet available.
USDA will continue targeting CRP acr