The other day, he says, he was looking at a field that a farmer had enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, or CRP.

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Within the last month, USDA has opened the Conservation Reserve Program to emergency haying and grazing, has lowered the borrower interest rate for emergency loans, and has called on crop insurance companies to provide more flexibility to farmers.

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So the state's Independent governor, Angus King, came up with a sensible suggestion: Cut hay from land enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the unaffected counties, and send it south, where it is immediately needed.

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