	u s senate panel makes conservation exemption the u s senate agriculture committee approved a measure that would exempt farmers who planted alfalfa or other multiyear grasses and legumes between and from a federal conservation requirement sen edward zorinsky d neb said his bill would restore equity under federal sodbuster rules which currently deny farm program benefits to farmers who between and planted alfalfa and other multiyear grasses and legumes without interrupting the plantings with a row crop an official from a leading conservation group who asked not to be identified said the panel s move was an unfortunate first action because it could lead to the exemption of potentially millions of acres from the sod buster regulations established under the farm bill reuter 
