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Farm Policy Recommendations

1. Resist the pressure to allow farmers penalty-free "early outs" from their CRP contracts.
2. Increase funding for working lands conservation programs such as CSP and EQIP.
3. Extend "sodbuster" compliance requirements for receipt of commodity payments to all acreage in production, not just highly erodible lands.
4. Create a pilot TMDL project for the Chesapeake Bay with joint USDA/EPA jurisdiction.
5. Extend compliance requirements for receipt of commodity payments to include nutrient management requirements in TMDL non-attainment watersheds.
6. Establish a new program in the Farm Bill to encourage riparian buffers.
7. Require all projects that receive federal funds to explore crop yield improvements to explicitly address the soil, water, and GHG implications of the new production methods.
8. Promote conservation tillage in corn production and provide research resources directed explicitly at use of slowrelease fertilizers and use of precision nitrogen management in row crop production.
9. Task the USDA with development of a consistent methodology for calculating the environmental impacts of biofuels feedstock production.