{"id":124021,"date":"2017-06-23T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=124021"},"modified":"2017-06-23T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T22:31:27","slug":"emergency-grazing-of-crp-acres-okayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=124021","title":{"rendered":"Emergency grazing of CRP acres okayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30378\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/USDA-logo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/USDA-logo-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/USDA-logo-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/USDA-logo.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Washington (CSi) Sen. John Hoeven &amp; Heidi Heitkamp, \u00a0and Rep. Kevin Cramer Friday announced that the USDA will allow North Dakota ranchers access to emergency grazing of conservation reserve program (CRP) acres in areas experiencing drought conditions. Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoeven.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/hoeven-heitkamp-and-cramer-release-crp-grazing-lands-to-help-north-dakota-ranchers-facing-drought-conditions\">the delegation pressed USDA to open CRP lands<\/a> to North Dakota ranchers impacted by drought conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate USDA opening up CRP lands for grazing to help our ranchers who have been hard hit by drought conditions,\u201d said Hoeven. \u201cWe will continue working with USDA to provide assistance, including emergency haying, to help support our producers through these challenging times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter pushing Secretary Perdue to help North Dakota ranchers weather this drought, USDA has agreed to our request to allow folks to begin emergency haying and grazing in drought-stricken counties,\u201d said Heitkamp. \u201cCountless ranchers have told us how dire the drought is across our state, especially in the western and central regions, where folks have already had to sell off too many cattle \u2013 and this emergency action will provide at least some relief. North Dakota is only as strong as our farming and ranching communities, which is why we\u2019re fighting to make sure folks can weather this drought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fast action by Secretary Perdue provides much-needed relief for our livestock producers who remain under severe stress,\u201d said Cramer. \u201cMoving forward, we will continue to monitor drought conditions, and work together to lessen the burden during these trying times for our ranchers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The emergency grazing is open for acres experiencing drought conditions in categories D2 or higher on the U.S. Drought Monitor, which is available <a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/Home\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?ND\">here<\/a>. Interested ranchers should contact their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) county office to access the emergency grazing acres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (CSi) Sen. John Hoeven &amp; Heidi Heitkamp, \u00a0and Rep. Kevin Cramer Friday announced that the USDA will allow North Dakota ranchers access to emergency grazing of conservation reserve program (CRP) acres in areas experiencing drought conditions. Earlier this month, the delegation pressed USDA to open CRP lands to North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124032,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124021\/revisions\/124032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}