Glickman To Visit Spokane In July

Fri., June 27, 1997

From Staff And Wire Reports

Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman will visit Spokane next month to explain the state’s low acceptance rate of federal Conservation Reserve Program land to area farmers, lawmakers said Thursday.

At the request of Washington’s two senators and Eastern Washington representatives, Glickman will determine if adjustments need to be made in calculating the environmental benefits to idling Washington’s wind-blown fields under the conservation program.

Washington lawmakers were incensed after the state ranked last in a March enrollment for CRP land, with 79 percent of all acres rejected. The program allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pay farmers to idle erosive crop land for 10 years.

Democratic Sen. Patty Murray said Glickman indicated that Washington will get more CRP acreage in the fall sign-up, without saying how much.

Murray added that she backs a legislative amendment by Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Wash., to force an Inspector General’s investigation of the March CRP sign-up. , DataTimes

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