Farmable Wetlands Program

The Farmable Wetlands Program is a wetlands conservation program in the United States. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) runs the program through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), with the goal of rehabilitation previously farmed wetlands.

Legislation
It was first authorized as a pilot program in Title XI of the FY2001 agriculture appropriations legislation (P.L. 106-387) to enroll up to 500000 acre of farmable wetlands smaller than 5 acre in six Upper Midwest states (with no more than 150000 acre in a single state) into the Conservation Reserve Program. The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 2101) made this a 2 e6acre national program (with an enrollment limit of 100000 acre per state), and made changes in eligibility requirements, such as increasing the maximum size of eligible wetlands from 5 acre to 10 acre.