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Mar. 21—Most lands in Mower see RIM increase of over $2,000 per acre Payments have increased significantly for Mower County landowners willing to convert cropland into permanent native prairie ...
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of production and convert them to vegetative cover, such as cultivated or native bunchgrasses and grasslands, wildlife and pollinators food and shelter plantings ...
CREP uses the state funds to offer higher payments per acre to participants than the CRP. States may enroll up to 100,000 acres (400 km 2) through an approved CREP, and at least three states have more than one CREP.
Sep. 13—Mower County has posted its record-high for acres — about 407 — signed up in one year for converting marginal cropland and floodplain to permanently restored native prairie and wetlands.
The Soil Bank Program is a federal program (authorized by the Soil Bank Act, P.L. 84-540, Title I) of the late 1950s and early 1960s that paid farmers to retire land from production for 10 years.
Jan. 23—WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program signup. USDA's Farm Service Agency encourages ...
93.5 percent of the 1998-2001 average yield; or; the direct payment yield (PFC yield) plus 70 percent of the difference between the 1998- 2001 average and the direct payment yield. Farm owners had to use the same counter-cyclical payment yield method for all eligible commodities on a farm.
A farmer’s crop acreage base is reduced by the portion of cropland placed in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), but increased by CRP base acreage leaving the CRP. Farmers have the choice of base acreage used to calculate Production Flexibility Contract payments for crop year 2002, or the average of acres planted for crop years 1998 ...