Acreage Reduction Program: Difference between revisions

In the United States, the '''Acreage Reduction Program''' (ARP) is a no-longer-authorized annual cropland retirement program for [[wheat]], feed grains, [[cotton]], or [[rice]] in which farmers participating in the [[commodity program]]s (in order to be eligible for [[nonrecourse loan]]s and [[deficiency payment]]s) were mandated to idle a crop-specific, nationally set portion of their [[base acreage]] during years of surplus.  The idled acreage (called the acreage conservation reserve) was devoted to a conserving use.