Conserved Lands Will Remain Safe
July 31, 2008 | Posted by Sheryl Canter in Food & Agriculture
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.
Two weeks ago, Lisa Moore posted about a dangerous suggestion from Congress and producer groups to allow the penalty-free release of up to 24 million acres from the Conservation Reserve Program so the land could be put back into crop production.
Yesterday, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer decided again it. Good call! From Sara Hopper, EDF's director of agricultural policy:
Secretary Schafer should be commended for resisting calls to gut the nation’s oldest and most successful farm conservation program. Putting millions of CRP acres back into intensive crop production would have resulted in the loss of billions of dollars in taxpayer investments in conservation and caused untold environmental damage, while only minimally boosting crop production and providing little, if any, relief from rising commodity prices.
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Comment from mich
August 7th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
i am very glad to here that the conserved lands will remain safe,this is good for the climate and other things and good to know that i help with this.
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