2012 A TURNING POINT

Next year millions of acres of agricultural land now protected by the Conservation Reserve Program will come up for contract renewal. But much of it may be converted to cash crops, the result of high prices and expected cutbacks in federal conservation programs.

November 28, 2011 at 6:03PM
(Raymond Grumney/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Ray Grumney is the news graphics director at the Star Tribune, with a proven 30-year award-winning track record. He is a driven visual journalist focused on developing and implementing high-impact design solutions to sometimes complicated data-driven stories.

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