Which act or program allows the type of exchange in the following scenario? A farmer has a great deal of land, but he only uses about two-thirds of it for crops. The rest is “rented” by the government; in exchange for not using the rest of the land for farming, the government provides monetary compensation for keeping the land pristine.

The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) pays farmers to take eligible land out of agricultural production and maintain it in a conservation use. Here, the farmer leaves one-third of the land uncultivated and receives government compensation for keeping it pristine, which matches the CRP. The Agricultural Adjustment Act also involved limiting farm production, but the specific land-conservation program described is the CRP.

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