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Government land conservation soaring in SD, some fear reversal | April 20

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A federal program pays farmers to keep marginal land out of crop production, and South Dakota enrollments are higher than they’ve been since the 1990s.

That helps wildlife and the environment. But market forces could reverse the trend.

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