10. Department of Agriculture · Major · Needs Congress
Eliminate the Conservation Reserve Program
Not started
Printed page 304 10. Department of Agriculture
“Champion the elimination of the Conservation Reserve Program. Farmers should not be paid in such a sweeping way not to farm their land. … The USDA should work with Congress to eliminate this overbroad program.”
What has happened
- Not started
No elimination proposed by USDA or Congress. The House-passed farm bill (H.R. 7567, 2026-04-30) instead reauthorizes CRP through 2031 with a 27-million-acre cap and a floor of 8.6 million continuous-enrollment acres; the reconciliation act's conservation section (P.L. 119-21 Sec. 10601) left CRP untouched.
- H.R. 7567 (engrossed), Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, Title II Subtitle B, Sec. 2101 — Conservation reserve extended from 2023 to 2031, passed the House 224–200
- Public Law 119-21 (H.R. 1, reconciliation act), Sec. 10601 — conservation title left the Conservation Reserve Program untouched
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- The contrary action is cited as Evidence on the not started event above: where Congress or the administration moved the other way, that action is the record. H.R. 7567 passed the House 224–200 (Roll no. 154) on 2026-04-30; received in the Senate 2026-05-19; no Senate action in the congress.gov actions feed as of 2026-08-27.
- Other CRP bills among those we keep and search are all pro-program and unmoved from committee: H.R. 2758 / S. 1389 (Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Improvement Act, 2025-04-09) and H.R. 6388 (Conservation Reserve Program Modernization Act, 2026-01-13).
- No USDA press release proposing CRP’s elimination was found; usda.gov’s press-release index refused automated reads, so the check relied on the Federal Register full-text search and a search of bills in Congress.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- Conservation Reserve Program
- ID
- 786