FSA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities

FSA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities

The USDA Farm Service Agency has a CRP Grasslands program specifically tailored for small-scale livestock grazing operations. FSA Washington State Executive Director Judy Olson gives more details about eligibility

 

Olson: “This program is specially targeted to smaller scale livestock operations. They could roll up up to 200 acres per farm and they can have 100 head or fewer of grazing dairy cows and then an equivalency — I believe it is — about 140 head of beef cattle. Then there is an equivalency for sheep or pasture-raised chickens that they can have maximum number of livestock. So it definitely may have some appeal for the smaller farms and newer and beginning farmers.”

 

Olson provides additional information about this CRP program and its deadline.

 

Olson: “The people who applied the Grasslands program earlier, are eligible to apply for this one. They’re are also eligible if they wish to go into their County office and I’ll say tweak or relook at their application and reapply with a little different twist to it. They are eligible to do that but it needs to be done by December 16th. That opportunity will then close and the offers evaluated.”

 

Offers selected this fiscal year will be enrolled into CRP Grasslands beginning Oct. first, 2017.

 

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