{"id":8955,"date":"2015-07-24T08:38:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T15:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2015-07-24T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T15:38:47","slug":"usda-announces-conservation-incentives-working-grass-range-pasture-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/07\/24\/usda-announces-conservation-incentives-working-grass-range-pasture-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA announces conservation incentives for working grass, range and pasture lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Rangeland.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8957\" alt=\"Rangeland\" src=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Rangeland.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The USDA has announced that beginning Sept. 1, farmers and ranchers can apply for financial assistance to help conserve working grasslands, rangeland and pastureland while maintaining the areas as livestock grazing lands.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is part of the voluntary Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a federally funded program that for 30 years has assisted agricultural producers with the cost of restoring, enhancing and protecting certain grasses, shrubs and trees to improve water quality, prevent soil erosion and reduce loss of wildlife habitat. \u00a0CRP has helped farmers and ranchers prevent more than 8 billion tons of soil from eroding, reduce nitrogen and phosphorous runoff relative to cropland by 95 and 85 percent respectively, and even sequester 43 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, equal to taking 8 million cars off the road.<\/p>\n<p>The CRP-Grasslands initiative will provide participants who establish long-term, resource-conserving covers with annual rental payments up to 75 percent of the grazing value of the land. Cost-share assistance also is available for up to 50 percent of the covers and other practices, such as cross fencing to support rotational grazing or improving pasture cover to benefit pollinators or other wildlife. Participants may still conduct common grazing practices, produce hay, mow, or harvest for seed production, conduct fire rehabilitation, and construct firebreaks and fences.<\/p>\n<p>With the publication of the CRP regulation, the Farm Service Agency will accept applications on an ongoing basis beginning Sept. 1, 2015, with those applications scored against published ranking criteria, and approved based on the competiveness of the offer. The ranking period will occur at least once per year and be announced at least 30 days prior to its start. The end of the first ranking period will be Nov. 20, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The USDA also plans to announce state-by-state allotments for the State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement (SAFE). Through SAFE, also a CRP initiative, up to 400,000 acres of additional agricultural land across 37 states will be eligible for wildlife habitat restoration funding. The additional acres are part of an <a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com:80\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTUwNzE2LjQ3MjI0NDAxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE1MDcxNi40NzIyNDQwMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MTU5NDUxJmVtYWlsaWQ9c2x5bGVAY2RmYS5jYS5nb3YmdXNlcmlkPXNseWxlQGNkZmEuY2EuZ292JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/wps\/portal\/usda\/usdahome?contentid=2015\/05\/0155.xml&amp;navid=NEWS_RELEASE&amp;navtype=RT&amp;parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&amp;edeployment_action=retrievecontent\" target=\"_top\">earlier CRP wildlife habitat announcement<\/a>. 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