APPENDIX B. 

 Places With All Cropland in the Conservation Reserve 



Program 



The Food Security Act of 1985 established the 

 Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). This program 

 provides annual payments for highly erodible cropland 

 enrolled in the program and meeting its conservation 

 requirements. It also requires that the land be taken out 

 of agricultural production for 10 years. 



The 1 987 Census of Agriculture includes Conservation 

 Reserve acreage as land in farms on operations that 

 meet the census farm definition. For census purposes, 

 a farm is any place from which agricultural products of 

 $1,000 or more were produced and sold or normally 

 would have been sold during the census year. 

 Operations which placed all of their cropland in the CRP 

 and did not otherwise meet the farm definition based 

 upon sales, livestock inventories, planted crops, or other 

 criteria for potential sales were not included as farms in 

 the census tabulations. 



The following table provides CRP data for places not 

 meeting the census farm definition ("whole farm" CRP 

 places). It also contains separate but corresponding 

 CRP data for farms included in the census tabulations. 

 In addition to State data, detailed county data are 

 presented for counties with three or more"whole farm" 

 CRP places reported. For counties with less than three 

 "whole farm" CRP places reported, their data are 

 combined and reported in "all other counties." 



The data for "whole farm" CRP places are not 

 complete for all counties. The census mail list was 

 developed from sources which indicated the farm had 

 agricultural production activity. It was not designed to 

 cover all "whole farm" CRP places. Therefore, the data 

 for these places are limited to what was reported in the 

 census and have not been adjusted to account for 

 nonresponse, incomplete coverage, and reporting errors. 



1987 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE 



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