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Farmers allowed to pull land out of federal conserved contracts amid global food crisis -USDA -Breaking

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A collection of wheat grains is seen at Farmers Cooperative Exchange, Oklahoma, U.S.A, June 12, 2019. REUTERS/Nick Oxford

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture will let farmers that are part of federal conservation land agreements to voluntarily end their contracts and allow them to plant on the land. This is to mitigate the current global food shortage, the agency announced on Thursday.

USDA announced that farmers are eligible for the offer if they have completed their last year of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contract.

The agency stated that participants approved for the voluntary and one-time termination of their leases will not be required to pay back rental payments. It was a flexible measure implemented to reduce the impact of the Russian invasion on global food supplies.

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