Scorecard is in and it looks like conservation is losing

The Congressional Budget Office has prepared its first estimates of direct expenditures and revenues from H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018; AKA the Farm Bill.  It looks like the conservation title (Title II) might take some hits.  The Conservation Reserve Program is proposed to be scaled back, and the Conservation Stewardship Program is proposed to be repealed. On the positive side, some of the cutbacks look like they have been rolled into EQIP (the Environmental Quality Incentives Program).  But the net is negative (figures in $million).