Emphasizes conservation on working land by increasing funding for Environmental Quality Incentives Program and new Conservation Stewardship Program (successor to the Conservation Security Program). Reduces Conservation Reserve Program acreage cap to 32 million acres beginning on Oct 1, 2009. Continues emphasis on wetland restoration and farmland preservation with expansion of Wetland Reserve Program, Farmland Protection Program, and Grassland Reserve Program.

Click on the link in each program area below to read a summary of the 2008 Farm Bill changes.

Conservation Reserve Program

Emergency Conservation Program and the Emergency Forest Restoration Program

Grassland Reserve Program

Source Water Protection Program

Biomass Crop Assistance Program

Chesapeake Bay Program

Public Access Program