The Great Plains Conservation Program (GPCP), initiated in 1957, provided cost share and technical assistance to apply conservation on entire farms in 10 Great Plains states from the Dakotas and Montana to Texas and New Mexico. Contracts were limited to $35,000. At the end of 1995, over 6,800 farms in 558 counties with were participating. It was replaced by the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) in the

1996 farm bill The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-127), known informally as the Freedom to Farm Act, the FAIR Act, or the 1996 U.S. Farm Bill, was the omnibus 1996 farm bill that, among other provisions, revises and simplifies d ...

(P.L. 104-127).

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{{CRS, article = Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition, url = http://www.documentshare.org/technology-and-applied-sciences/report-for-congress-agriculture-a-glossary-of-terms-programs-and-laws-2005-edition/, author= Jasper Womach United States Department of Agriculture Nature conservation organizations based in the United States