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09-09-2011, 01:25 PM
If you own or manage farmland or forest land, run a greenhouse, grow specialty crops, or farm organically, then NRCS Conservation Programs can help you address natural resource concerns and opportunities on your land.
Conservation:
Agricultural Management Assistance Program (AMA):
AMA helps farmers reduce the economic risk to farms by providing technical and financial assistance to implement of practices that address issues such as irrigation water management.
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP):
Through EQIP, farmers may receive financial and technical help with structural and management conservation practices on agricultural and forest land.
Funding is also available for development of Conservation Activity Plans (CAPs). These are specialized plans that address specific resources and can be used to improve management. Connecticut offers CAPs in Forestry and Energy Conservation.
Grassland Reserve (GRP): The Grassland Reserve Program (GRP) is a voluntary program for landowners and operators to protect grazing uses and related conservation values by conserving grasslands.
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP): WRP offers landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands on their property that have been impacted by agriculture.
Grants:
Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG): Grants for projects that stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies
For more information on NRCS programs visit our website at http://www.ct.nrcs.usda.gov/
or contact your local NRCS office:
In Windham County - Brooklyn Service Center - (860) 774-0224
139 Wolf Den Road
Brooklyn, CT 06234
If*we take care of the land, it will take care of us. - Hugh Hammond Bennett, first Chief of NRCS
CAPs will be written by a Technical Service Provider (TSP), based on the objectives and needs of the landowner or land manager. Participants may choose a TSP from an approved list.
Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP): The WHIP Program provides assistance to landowners who want to improve fish and wildlife habitat or restore natural ecosystems on their land.
Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP): CSP encourages land stewards, who have achieved a high level of conservation, to improve their conservation performance. CSP provides incentives to install and adopt additional activities, and to improve, maintain, and manage existing practices on agricultural land and nonindustrial private forest land.
Easements:
FRPP - Farm and Ranch Land Protection Program (FRPP): Through FRPP, NRCS helps protect privately owned agricultural lands by partnering with approved state, local, and non-profit entities who arrange for the purchase of development rights through conservation easements.
NOTICE to Hispanic or Women Farmers: If you believe USDA improperly denied you farm loan benefits during 1981-2000, visit farmerclaims.gov.
USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
Conservation Programs
Are you a farmer or landowner interested in ?
Productive and Healthy Cropland and Forestland?
Clean Streams?
Efficient Irrigation?
Complying with Environmental Regulations?
Reducing Energy Costs?
Maintaining Important Wildlife Habitats?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should consider the NRCS Conservation Programs.
A Picture of Conservation Work in Connecticut
Agricultural Waste Composting Facility
Deep Zone Tillage
Wildlife Habitat
First Round of Conservation Program Signups for 2012 is open until October 7, 2011.
An Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer
Contact Us
Seventy percent of the land in the United States is privately owned, making stewardship by private landowners*vital to the health of our Nations environment
With offices in nearly every county in the United States, NRCS works with landowners and communities to improve our soil, water, air, plants, wildlife, and energy use.
Ensuring productive lands in harmony with a healthy environment is our vision.*
For more information on NRCS programs visit our website at http://www.ct.nrcs.usda.gov/ or contact your local NRCS office.
First Round of Conservation Program Signups for 2012 is open until October 7, 2011.
An Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer
Conservation:
Agricultural Management Assistance Program (AMA):
AMA helps farmers reduce the economic risk to farms by providing technical and financial assistance to implement of practices that address issues such as irrigation water management.
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP):
Through EQIP, farmers may receive financial and technical help with structural and management conservation practices on agricultural and forest land.
Funding is also available for development of Conservation Activity Plans (CAPs). These are specialized plans that address specific resources and can be used to improve management. Connecticut offers CAPs in Forestry and Energy Conservation.
Grassland Reserve (GRP): The Grassland Reserve Program (GRP) is a voluntary program for landowners and operators to protect grazing uses and related conservation values by conserving grasslands.
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP): WRP offers landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands on their property that have been impacted by agriculture.
Grants:
Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG): Grants for projects that stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies
For more information on NRCS programs visit our website at http://www.ct.nrcs.usda.gov/
or contact your local NRCS office:
In Windham County - Brooklyn Service Center - (860) 774-0224
139 Wolf Den Road
Brooklyn, CT 06234
If*we take care of the land, it will take care of us. - Hugh Hammond Bennett, first Chief of NRCS
CAPs will be written by a Technical Service Provider (TSP), based on the objectives and needs of the landowner or land manager. Participants may choose a TSP from an approved list.
Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP): The WHIP Program provides assistance to landowners who want to improve fish and wildlife habitat or restore natural ecosystems on their land.
Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP): CSP encourages land stewards, who have achieved a high level of conservation, to improve their conservation performance. CSP provides incentives to install and adopt additional activities, and to improve, maintain, and manage existing practices on agricultural land and nonindustrial private forest land.
Easements:
FRPP - Farm and Ranch Land Protection Program (FRPP): Through FRPP, NRCS helps protect privately owned agricultural lands by partnering with approved state, local, and non-profit entities who arrange for the purchase of development rights through conservation easements.
NOTICE to Hispanic or Women Farmers: If you believe USDA improperly denied you farm loan benefits during 1981-2000, visit farmerclaims.gov.
USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
Conservation Programs
Are you a farmer or landowner interested in ?
Productive and Healthy Cropland and Forestland?
Clean Streams?
Efficient Irrigation?
Complying with Environmental Regulations?
Reducing Energy Costs?
Maintaining Important Wildlife Habitats?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should consider the NRCS Conservation Programs.
A Picture of Conservation Work in Connecticut
Agricultural Waste Composting Facility
Deep Zone Tillage
Wildlife Habitat
First Round of Conservation Program Signups for 2012 is open until October 7, 2011.
An Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer
Contact Us
Seventy percent of the land in the United States is privately owned, making stewardship by private landowners*vital to the health of our Nations environment
With offices in nearly every county in the United States, NRCS works with landowners and communities to improve our soil, water, air, plants, wildlife, and energy use.
Ensuring productive lands in harmony with a healthy environment is our vision.*
For more information on NRCS programs visit our website at http://www.ct.nrcs.usda.gov/ or contact your local NRCS office.
First Round of Conservation Program Signups for 2012 is open until October 7, 2011.
An Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer