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USDA increasing incentive payments for CRP-enrolled land

USDA increasing incentive payments for CRP-enrolled land Judd Weil Dodge City Daily Globe On Dec. 9, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it is increasing incentive payments for practices installed on land enrolled in the continuous Conservation Reserve Program. USDA’s Farm Service Agency 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. The FSA administers CRP benefits on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation. “The Conservation Reserve Program provides agricultural producers and landowners with a tool to conserve natural resources on their land that is less suitable for farming,” said FSA administrator Richard Fordyce. “We offer a number of CRP initiatives, including continuous CRP, which greatly benefits natural resources like water. Increasing the incentive payment gives farmers even mor

Carbon offsets not helping climate if they aren t sparking change

Carbon offsets not helping climate if they aren’t sparking change Rethinking the value of programs that pay landowners to plant trees, sometimes even if they did it a decade ago December 18, 2020 16 MINS Jack Branning is a prosperous Mississippi businessman, with commercial interests stretching from Hattiesburg to Baton Rouge, La. He’s seen a lot of deals in his 89 years, but few were as curious as the one he was offered back in 2013. That’s when a forester walked into his office in Vicksburg and inquired about 1,700 acres of former soybean fields he owned nearby. The man worked for GreenTrees LLC, a small company that says it combats climate change by reforesting thousands of acres of farmland along the lower Mississippi River. GreenTrees says it pays landowners to convert their croplands to forests, tallies the planet-warming carbon absorbed by those trees, and then sells credit for the carbon reductions to big corporations that want to offset thei

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