“What I hear from our beef producers is they want to grow, they see an opportunity,” said Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig, who said he supports CRP reforms to further allow haying and grazing of CRP acres. “We don’t want to see more CRP acres, because that really is a land-retirement program,” Popelka said of CRP. Tjeerdsma believes more producers would be interested in grazing under CRP if more cost-share was available to help establish fencing and water. States try their own approaches to easing forage shortagesStates are also testing their own programs to help cattle producers with forage concerns. Naig said to solve cattle producers’ forage access challenges, officials need to look either at finding ways to convert sensitive row-crop acres to grasslands or look at “acres already seeded down through CRP” and similar programs.