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Agricultural Producers to Conserve Land through Climate-Smart Easements as part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda

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On March 13, 2024, NRCS announced it will invest about $138 million of financial assistance from the Inflation Reduction Act in 138 new climate-smart conservation easements, through which farmers and ranchers are conserving wetlands, grasslands and prime farmlands.

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Save Rhode Island’s Ag Lands and Wetlands with USDA Conservation Easements - 2024

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Rhode Island NRCS announces a second application sign up period for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). ACEP helps landowners, land trusts, and other entities protect, restore, and enhance wetlands or protect farmland and ranchland through conservation easements.

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NRCS Obligates Record $85.8 Million in Conservation Funding to Iowa Farmers

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NRCS obligated a record $85.8 million in conservation practice funding to Iowa farmers in fiscal year 2023, through 1,628 conservation program contracts that will help treat natural resource concerns such as soil erosion and water quality on 386,736 acres.

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Save Rhode Island’s Ag Lands and Wetlands with USDA Conservation Easements

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NRCS in Rhode Island is still accepting applications for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). ACEP helps landowners, land trusts, and other entities protect, restore, and enhance wetlands or protect farmland and ranchland through conservation easements.

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USDA-NRCS Texas Accepting Applications for Agricultural Conservation Easement Program

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While the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) accepts easement applications on a continuous basis, applications for the 2024 fiscal year Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) funding consideration must be submitted to NRCS by December 8, 2023.

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USDA Offers Conservation Assistance to Landowners to Protect Wetlands, Agricultural Lands and Grasslands

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Private landowners, tribes, land trusts and other groups wanting to restore and protect critical wetlands and protect agricultural lands and grasslands through the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) have until November 30, 2023