HR 2758
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Improvement Act of 2025
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Bill overview
This bill, the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Improvement Act of 2025, modifies the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) to expand eligible practices and provide more flexibility to landowners. Specifically, it includes dryland agricultural uses and grazing as acceptable practices within CREP, and allows landowners to determine their annual payment amounts. The bill also adjusts payment rates for agreements involving permanent water rights retirement and dryland agriculture, and retroactively applies certain changes to existing agreements. Finally, it exempts CREP payments from a previous annual payment limitation.
Key provisions
- Includes dryland agricultural uses and grazing as eligible CREP practices.
- Allows landowners to elect annual payment amounts for CREP agreements.
- Adjusts payment rates for agreements involving permanent water rights retirement.
- Establishes payment rates for dryland agricultural use agreements based on the difference between irrigated and dryland acre rates.
- Retroactively applies payment adjustments to existing drought and water conservation agreements.
- Exempts CREP payments from the $50,000 annual payment limitation under CRP.
- Requires conservation plans to be adopted with respect to land included in CREP agreements.
- Clarifies that agricultural land on which a continuous crop or crop rotation is maintained is included in CREP.
Who is affected
- Farmers
- Landowners
- The Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Agricultural Landowners
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 2758
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to modify the conservation reserve enhancement program.
This Act may be cited as the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Improvement Act of 2025
.
in subsection (a)(4), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting (other than an agreement described in subsection (e))
after this subchapter
;
in subsection (b)(2)(A)(vi), by inserting or other appropriate practices, such as dryland agricultural uses and grazing,
after conservation practices
;
in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following:
An owner or operator may elect to determine the amounts of annual payments under this section allocated to each year of the agreement under subsection (b)(1).
in subsection (e)—
in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking may—
and inserting shall—
;
in paragraph (1), by inserting (including agricultural land on which a continuous crop or crop rotation is maintained)
after agricultural land
;
in paragraph (2), by striking with the adoption of best management practices on
and inserting in accordance with a conservation plan adopted with respect to
; and
in paragraph (3), by inserting subject to subsection (c)(6),
before calculate
.
Section 1234(g) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3834(g)) is amended—
in paragraph (1), by striking paragraph (2)
and inserting paragraphs (2) and (3)
; and
by adding at the end the following:
Paragraph (1) shall not apply to rental payments received under agreements entered into under section 1231A.