Are farmers in the 19th district of Texas taking advantage of existing conservation assistance programs offered by USDA?
Farmers in the counties that make up the TX-19 district collected $282 million in USDA conservation assistance from 1996 through 2000, or roughly $56 million each year. More than 8,500 of the 22,300 subsidy recipients in the district — nearly 2 out of every 5 of those who received USDA subsidies from 1996 through 2000 — participated in USDA conservation assistance programs over the 5-year period. In particular, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a program that was conceived by conservation groups in 1985, and was extended and reauthorized largely due to the efforts of the environmental community, has been extremely popular in the TX-19 district. The CRP has proven so popular with farmers that over the last 5 years, nearly 20 percent of all USDA subsidies in the district were for the CRP.
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