Errors in federal program could harm local farmers

Errors discovered in a federal program supporting rural Washington landowners have local farmers and homeowners along the Nooksack River worried about potential major cuts to their income.  Those errors, found in contracts between landowners and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), meant some landowners were being paid to re-wild land ineligible for the program.  CREP works as an incentive program from the USDA and is ad