by Ginger Chambley | Apr 22, 2021 | News
OverviewCongress and the USDA have established requirementsto ensure that farm program payments only go tofarmers who are “actively engaged in farming.” The2018 Farm Bill extends the payment eligibility andpayment limitation requirements for the 2019 throughthe 2023...
by Ginger Chambley | Mar 16, 2021 | News
Contact:FPAC.BC.Press@usda.gov WASHINGTON, March 15, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $28 million in six new Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership (WREP) projects and four ongoing ones, which enable conservation partners and producers to...
by Ginger Chambley | Mar 12, 2021 | News
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that it isaccepting Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) renewal applications through March 31 for over 11,000contracts set to end this year. CSP is USDA’s largest working lands...
by Ginger Chambley | Mar 4, 2021 | News
Matt Ollendieck had been trying cover crops on part of his farm near LaPorte, City, Iowa, when he decided last year to sign up for a pilot project that sells the environmental benefits from his work. Matt Ollendieck is an Iowa farmer He put all of his acres, planted...
by sl_admin | Feb 2, 2021 | News
Shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook, posts claim that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “wants American farmers to put their farmland into ‘land banks’” whereby the federal government “would then tell farmers what ‘sustainable’ plants they could...
by sl_admin | Dec 4, 2020 | News
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the signup periods for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and the CRP Grasslands in 2021. Signup for general CRP will be open from Jan. 4, 2021, to Feb. 12, 2021, and signup for CRP Grasslands runs from...
