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The Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) funds landowners that volunteer their land for wetland development and provides opportunities for landowners participate in the maintenance of the project. The land must meet specific requirement to receive funding and the program is set up for each state in the United States. The Landowner has up to three choices:
REYNOLDSBURG - The Ohio Department of Agriculture has announced nine land trusts, seven counties or townships and 25 Soil and Water Conservation Districts will receive funding to help preserve ...
A converted wetland is one that has been drained, dredged, filled, leveled, or otherwise altered for the production of an agricultural commodity. [1] The definition is part of The Highly Erodible Land Conservation and Wetland Conservation Compliance provisions [2] (Swampbuster) introduced in the 1985 Farm Bill (also known as The Food Security Act of 1985).
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 ...
"No Net loss" is the United States government's overall policy goal regarding wetlands preservation. The goal of the policy is to balance wetland loss due to economic development with wetlands reclamation, mitigation, and restorations efforts, so that the total acreage of wetlands in the country does not decrease, but remains constant or increases.
That year, 14.9% of Ohio's foreign-held farmland belonged to Canadians and 14.6% to Germans. Nationwide in 2022, 32.1% of the total foreign-held farmland in the U.S. was owned by Canadian ...
The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 2101) made this a 2-million-acre (8,100 km 2) national program (with an enrollment limit of 100,000 acres (400 km 2) per state), and made changes in eligibility requirements, such as increasing the maximum size of eligible wetlands from 5 acres (20,000 m 2) to 10 acres (40,000 m 2). [2]
Fairfield County commissioners' land-use plan shows more commercial and residential growth in northern part of county, worrying long-time residents. ... Ohio. The two have lived on the farm since ...