Farmer Fact Sheets
on Conservation
Security Program Now Available
CONTACT: Mark
Schultz, LSP, 612-722-6377
9/17/02
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—The Land Stewardship Project has launched
a series of fact sheets on a new Farm Bill initiative that holds great
promise for rewarding producers who are taking good care of the land.
The first two fact sheets in the series, Get
Paid for Real Conservation and Resources
of Concern, provide an introduction to the Conservation Security
Program (CSP), which was established by the 2002 Farm Security and Rural
Investment Act. Other fact sheets will be added to the series in coming
months. The
CSP will reward farmers who are already doing a good job of conservation
on working farmland, and will provide incentives for implementing new
practices that improve land stewardship still further. The Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS) will implement the program in 2003.
"The
Conservation Security Program is an exciting step toward rewarding conservation
farming practices such as managed rotational grazing and resource-conserving
crop rotations that in the past have been ignored or even penalized
by government programs," said Mark Schultz, the Land Stewardship
Project's Policy Program Director. "That is especially true for
sustainable family farmers, who have kept good multiple crop rotations,
often along with hay and pasture. Right now, the best thing for such
farmers to do is to go into their county NRCS office and talk to the
staff about how the CSP can really work to the benefit of the land and
family farmers."
Fact
sheets are available as PDF documents:
• Get Paid
for Real Conservation
•
Resources
of Concern
For
a free paper copy of the fact sheets, contact the Land Stewardship Project's
Policy Program office at 612-722-6377.
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