A general Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) signup will be held from January 4-February 12 and a CRP Grasslands signup will run from March 15-April 23, USDA's Farm Service Agency announced Thursday.
As of September, there were 21.9 million acres enrolled in CRP with contracts on 5.36 million acres expiring as of September 30. Via the last general CRP signup, contracts on 3.4 million acres were approved with an October 1 starting date. USDA data shows another 1.2 million acres were approved for CRP Grasslands enrollment with 425,777 acres enrolled via continuous CRP signup efforts during Fiscal Year 2020.
USDA has not indicated what the CRP acreage total is as of October, but it would appear that around 21.6 million acres are enrolled in the program.