“Few Growers Cut CRP Land, More Take Grazing Option”

Lynn Andersen supplemented a meager dryland alfalfa crop this season by baling 300 acres he’d set aside as wildlife habitat through the federal Conservation Reserve Program.

Andersen, who farms in southeast Idaho’s Arbon Valley, was among the few Pacific Northwest growers who took advantage of a drought and fire emergency incentive offered to those who cut hay on CRP land.

FSA officials have received far more interest, mostly in eastern Idaho, in a related incentive to open farmers’ CRP acres to grazing.

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