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Your Stewardship Goals. Our Assistance.

Have you ever looked across your property and thought about some land management goals you would like to take to the next level? Maybe we can help.

No one knows more about your land than you do, and no one knows more about conservation than we do. Together we can develop a plan tailored to your land and your goals to help you increase productivity and protect the value of your land.

How It Works

Our Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) helps you build on your existing conservation efforts while strengthening your operation. Whether you are looking to improve grazing conditions, increases crop yields, or develop wildlife habitat, we can custom design a CSP plan to help you meet those goals. We can help you schedule timely planting of cover crops, develop a grazing plan that will improve your forage base, implement no-till to reduce erosion or manage forested areas in a way that benefits wildlife habitat. If you are already taking steps to improve the condition of the land, chances are CSP can help you find new ways to meet your goals.

Benefits

CSP is for working lands. It is the largest conservation program in the United States with 70 million acres of productive agricultural and forest land enrolled in CSP. Thousands of people have made the choice to voluntarily enroll in the program because it helps them enhance natural resources and improve their business operation.

CSP participants are seeing real results. Some of the benefits include:

  • Increased crop yields
  • Decreased inputs
  • Wildlife habitat population improvements
  • Increased resilience to weather extremes

New CSP Grasslands Conservation Initiative

This new initiative will assist producers in protecting grazing land uses; conserving and improving soil, water and wildlife resources; and achieving related conservation values by conserving eligible land through grassland conservation contracts.

Eligible producers will have a single opportunity to enroll in a five-year contract. By signing the contract, producers agree to meet or exceed the stewardship threshold for one priority resource concern by the end of the five-year contract. NRCS will make payments for the initiative at a rate of $18 per acre each year not to exceed the base acres enrolled in a contract.

CSP Enhancements

2020 CSP Enhancements

Associated Ag Land | Crop | Farmstead | Forest | Pasture | Range

 

 

 

 

    

For information on available activities in Arkansas, see the Activity List for Participants in Arkansas (PDF). For information about Arkansas Enhancements and Addendums (44 MB; PDF). For detailed information on implementation criteria and documentation requirements of specific enhancements, please visit the National CSP website where complete list of enhancements and the criteria for implementation may be found.

Conservation Stewardship Program Deadlines and Application Materials

The FY 2021 CSP implementation schedule is:

Signup

Program Category

Application Deadline

Ranking & Cost Estimate Deadline

Obligation

2021-1

CSP-GCI

16-Oct-20

N/A

29-Jan-21

2021-1

CSP Renewal

20-Mar-20

4-Dec-20

26-Jan-21

2021-1

CSP Classic

TBD

TBD

TBD

 

  • 2021 Arkansas Activity List (PDF)
  • 2020 Arkansas Enhancements and Addendums (44 MB; PDF)

 

Contact

Clyde Williams
Resource Conservationist
Phone: 501-301-3164
Email: clyde.williams@usda.gov

For further information and assistance, contact your local NRCS Field Service Center.

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