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Michigan agricultural
producers and forest owners can begin signing up for the U.S. Department
of Agriculture’s new Conservation Stewardship Program on August 10 with
the first signup period cutoff scheduled for September 30. The voluntary
program offers program payments to producers that maintain existing
conservation activities and adopt additional ones on their operations.
The Conservation
Stewardship Program is a new program created under the Food,
Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. CSP is administered by the USDA
Natural Resources Conservation Service. Lands eligible for the program
include cropland, grassland, prairie, improved pastureland, rangeland,
non-industrial private forestland and agricultural land under the
jurisdiction of an Indian tribe. Eligible applicants may include
individual landowners, legal entities, and Indian tribes. |