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The potential future loss of the state's wildlife habitat leaves South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks officials concerned for the future of wildlife. This year, there were 42,352 acres of South Dakota land submitted by landowners for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) during general...

WASHINGTON -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced this week that farmers, ranchers and landowners committed to protecting and conserving environmentally sensitive land may sign up for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) beginning Monday. Vilsack also announced that retiring...

About 110 square miles of South Dakota land parcels set aside for conservation could be lost to expiring contracts. Contracts for nearly 70,000 acres in the Conservation Reserve Program are due to expire later this year. If those contracts are not renewed, it will continue a trend...

To the Editor: When your contract was up on CRP planted in the 1980s, you had to farm it for two years before you could put it back in the CRP because the grass that was used was too tall and smothering the wildlife. That was so all the grass seed from the tall grass was gone. Now...