The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)is a Voluntary Subsidy Program That

Multiple Choice

The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a voluntary subsidy program that pays farmers to stop producing crops on highly erodible farmland. Instead farmers are required to:

A) strip crop native plants with grain crops on the erodible land.
B) plant native grasses or trees on the highly erodible land and then "retire" it from further use for 10 to 15 years,
C) develop and adopt a 5-year conservation plan for their farms that includes erosion-control measures, and if they do not comply, they lose federal agricultural subsidies such as price supports
D) plant shelterbelts to reduce the impact of wind erosion