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soil bank

A former federal government program that paid landowners to keep their agricultural lands fallow—unfarmed—for 5 to 10 years in order to prevent overproduction in specified commodities.Today,many of the same functions are administered by the Conservation Reserve Program of the Farm Service Agency (www.fsa.usda.gov).

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