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Making Sense of Federal Programs
How to use flexible planting rules and conservation
programs to make your farm more sustainable and profitable.
By
Brad DeVries, Land Stewardship Project.
Introduction
Production Flexibility Contract Requirements
USDA Conservation Compliance, Sodbuster and Swampbuster
Conservation
Reserve Program (CRP) and CRP Continuous Sign-Up
Wetlands
Reserve Program (WRP)
Environmental
Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
Conservation
Farm Option (CFO)
Wildlife
Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP)
Crop Insurance Issues Under Production Flexibility Contracts
The
Non-Insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)
USDA Programs and Appeals
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Other resources at
Sustainable Farming Connection:
Adapted
from Making the Most of Freedom
to Farm: Innovative uses of Planting Flexibility and Conservation Programs,
a 40-page guide that reviews profitable, environmentally beneficial farming
practices that are easier for farmers to adopt under new national farm
legislation. Copies are available from the Land Stewardship Project, 2200 4th
St., White Bear Lake, MN 55110. Phone: (612) 653-0618. A postage/handling
charge of $4.00 will apply to all mail requests.
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