1-31 IAN FSA TIP

 The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) recently created TIP Net, an online tool that can link retiring farmers who have expiring Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contracts with beginning farmers interested in bringing the land into production. Through the Transition Incentives Program (TIP), producers with land for sale or lease are introduced to qualified beginning or socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers who want to buy or rent land for their operations.

TIP provides up to two additional Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) annual rental payments to a retired or retiring owner or operator with an expiring CRP contract. To qualify, the landowner must sell or lease the CRP land to a beginning or socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher so the new operator can convert some or all of the land to production using sustainable grazing or crop production methods.

Here’s Dick Rush, State Executive Director for FSA in Idaho: We know the average age of farmers is getting older  every year so we’re trying to think of ways to promote new farmers to take over.”

To find additional information and to enroll your land on TIP Net go to http://www.fsa.usda.gov/tipnet.