Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)

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AFT has helped shape U.S. farm bills since the 1980s.[17] AFT published the policy document Soil Conservation in America: What Do We Have to Lose? in 1984 and was a member of the conservation coalition that played a significant role in the development of the Food Security Act of 1985[18] which established the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). AFT's work as a proponent of the expansion of government-funded agriculture programs [19][20] led to the passing of the 2002 Farm Bill and the authorization of the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (succeeded by the Agriculture Conservation Easement Program, or ACEP)[21] and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. AFT advocated to increase funding for the ACEP by supporting the passing of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 which would increase the program's funding by $2 billion over the span of 10 years.[22]