Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced that the Agriculture Department will begin continuous sign-up for the new Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) on August 10, with the first signup period cutoff scheduled for Sept. 30.
CSP is a voluntary program that encourages agricultural and forestry producers to maintain existing conservation practices, while adopting additional procedures on their operations. Congress renamed and revamped the former Conservation Security Program to improve its availability and appeal to agricultural and forestry producers.
The program will be offered to producers nationwide through continuous sign-ups. Eligible applicants may include individual landowners, legal entities and Indian tribes. Agricultural and forestry producers must submit applications by Sept. 30 to be considered for funding in the first ranking period. Congress capped national acreage enrollment at 12,769,000 acres for each fiscal year.
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