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Sign up for the 2009 Conservation Stewardship Program
Deadline September 30
What is CSP?
Farmers and ranchers can now sign up for the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), a comprehensive working lands program which rewards producers for practices that improve natural resources and the environment. CSP provides technical and financial assistance to producers for maintaining existing conservation measures and for adopting additional conservation practices.
Benefits for Organic Farmers
CSP rewards producers for the conservation benefits of their existing organic farming and ranching systems. Organic practices are among more than 70 activities CSP targets. Some of these include organic cropping and livestock systems, establishing pollinator habitat, conservation tillage,
resource-conserving crop rotations, rotational grazing, and continuous cover cropping. Practices that sequester carbon and reduce greenhouse gases are also rewarded. In addition, the 2008 Farm Bill requires NRCS to provide technical assistance specific to organic producers.
To learn more about the Conservation Stewardship Program, including detailed instructions on how to submit an application, please visit our CSP Resource Page.
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Thank you once again for all of your advocacy work. Please send questions and comments to Tracy Lerman, OFRF Policy Organizer: tracy@ofrf.org.
Join the Organic Farmers Action Network today!
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