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New CRP Enrollment Offers Opportunity for Grazing, Hay
USAgNet - 12/23/2020 The Conservation Reserve Program continues to improve and is now more practical for working ranches, land health and wildlife than ever. Grazing, haying and other management actions are allowed within the context of an overall plan and will recycle nutrients,
stimulate plant growth, improve soil health and open the stand so that young wildlife can move and forage.
General CRP enrollment for grazing, hay and habitat is scheduled January 4 through February 12, with Grassland CRP sign-up following in March.
Pete Bauman, SDSU Extension Natural Resources and Wildlife Field Specialist encourages producers to take advantage of the contract period to explore long term grazing and wildlife habitat options.
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That’s how much land Biden wants to conserve over the next decade. But is it possible?
By Arthur Middleton and Justin Brashares
The authors are professors in the department of environmental science, policy and management at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dec. 21, 2020
Credit.Max Whittaker for The New York Times
To slow extinctions and climate change, President-elect Joe Biden has embraced a plan to conserve 30 percent of U.S. land and 30 percent of its ocean waters by 2030. It is perhaps the most ambitious commitment to conservation by a U.S. president. How he proceeds will determine whether he unites or further divides Americans in a pivotal decade for the planet.
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The CRP was originally intended to control soil erosion and potentially stabilize commodity prices by taking marginal lands out of production. USDA will be increasing incentive payments for land enrolled in the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program.
Dec 22, 2020
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is increasing incentive payments for practices installed on land enrolled in the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is upping the Practice Incentive Payment for installing practices, from 5% to 20%. Additionally, producers will receive a 10% incentive payment for water quality practices on land enrolled in CRP’s continuous signup. FSA administers CRP on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation.