[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 6]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR657.2]

[Page 544]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER VI--NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 657_PRIME AND UNIQUE FARMLANDS--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart A_Important Farmlands Inventory
 
Sec. 657.2  Policy.

    It is NRCS policy to make and keep current an inventory of the prime 
farmland and unique farmland of the Nation. This inventory is to be 
carried out in cooperation with other interested agencies at the 
National, State, and local levels of government. The objective of the 
inventory is to identify the extent and location of important rural 
lands needed to produce food, feed, fiber, forage, and oilseed crops.