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Farmers are offering to place a smaller-than-expected 9.45 million acres of highly erodible cropland into a government program that bans cultivation for 10 to 15 years. The Agriculture Department said more than 125,000 farmers made offers to enroll fragile farmland into the Conservation Reserve Program. Farmers were expected to offer 10 million to 13 million acres of land for retirement, said Parks Shackleford, assistant deputy administrator for farm programs.
