Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) aims to retire environmentally sensitive conventional farmland that adversely affects ecosystem services like water, soil, and biodiversity. The map shows the county-level land enrolled under the CRP for three strategic years. The first map is for 1986, the first year after the federal government started the CRP program from the Farm Bill 1985. The second map is for the year 2007, which is strategically crucial because the price of agricultural products, primarily corn, increased significantly after this because of excessive demand for bio-ethanol production. Ultimately negatively affecting the land enrollment in CRP. The third map is of 2019, the latest data available for the county level. The Farm Bill of 2018 promised to increase CRP enrollment, the effect of which has still to be analyzed.
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