Agricultural and Food Policy
 Agri Outlook Radio
Number 148
Policy/Noteworthy: USDA Announces Conservation Security Program Sign-up (1:47 minutes)
Audio/Video Script:
Dr. Bobby Coats
Extension Economist
University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture
USDA Announces Conservation Security Program Sign-up
A sign-up for the Conservation Security Program (CSP) will be available
starting April 18 to approximately 64,000 potentially eligible farms and
ranches in 51 U.S. watersheds covering more than 24 million acres from April
18 to May 16.
Arkansas has one watershed, the Upper White-Village, selected to participate
in the Conservation Security Program. The watershed has an estimated 698 farms
on an estimated 348,558 acres.
CSP is a voluntary conservation program that supports ongoing stewardship of
private, agricultural working lands and rewards those producers who are meeting
the highest standards of conservation and environmental management on their
operations.
National Resource Conservation Service held the first CSP sign-up in 2004. The current announcement brings the
number of watersheds enrolled to 331 across the nation, covering 248 million
acres that have been eligible for the program. CSP is offered on a rotational
basis in as many watersheds as funding allows.
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/csp
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This has been Bobby Coats Extension Economist University of Arkansas Division
of Agriculture.
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