Conservation programs across the country got a huge boost yesterday when the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee approved a 2010 spending blueprint that would restore funding for farmland conservation programs. The subcommittee rejected most of the hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts that the Obama administration had sought. A group of 50 different farm, forestry, conservation and environmental organizations sent letters to House and Senate appropriators last week, asking them to keep the farm bill spending levels. Next stop for the bill? The Senate.