The Ranking Member of the Senate Ag Committee wants the USDA to delay the Conservation Reserve Program deadlines.
Republican John Boozman from Arkansas tells Brownfield the world faces the highest food prices ever recorded and taking ag land out of production during disruptions in wheat, feed grain, and oilseed supplies concerns him. “This really is a crisis situation. We were in a crisis anyway because of the high input costs with a tremendous increase in inflation, and then the supply chain shortages.”
Boozman sent a letter to Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack asking him to delay the CRP sign-up deadline and increase the flexibility for a farmer to buy crop insurance to allow farmers time to decide between planting a crop or enrolling in CRP.
