conservation stewardship program

Many of the nation’s leading farm, conservation, and wildlife groups worked together to protect Conservation Title Funding in the 2018 Farm Bill.  Now, more than 140 of those groups are working together again to protect those hard-fought conservation funds and programs in the Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations Process.   G...

You may be surprised by how many acres are part of USDA's conservation programs.  Natural Resources Conservation Service Deputy Chief Jimmy Bramlett acknowledges many think the conservation reserve program, CRP, with 24 million acres is the largest program, but that is not the case.  ...

The Conservation Stewardship Program is making a few changes.   Acting Chief of the National Resources Conservation Service Leonard Jordan said, “We listened to our customers both the staff employees who work with producers and we listened to the producers and we have incorporated all that we heard into double the number of enhancements as well as double the number of practices that are available

The USDA will begin accepting applications for their Conservation Stewardship Program later this month with a cap of 10 million acres nationwide getting into the program.   Mark Rose with the Natural Resources Conservation Service said each application will be ranked.  ...