GRAND FORKS, N.D. - It may not be as well known as the Conservation Reserve Program, or CRP, but the Conservation Stewardship Program, or CSP, is the nation's largest working lands program with more ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — The Conservation Stewardship Program is one of the federal government’s most popular tools for making “working land” in agriculture more environmentally friendly. Todd C. Hagel, ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Ohio Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is accepting applications from landowners interested in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) to build on ...

Sustainable inputs and conservation practices improve soil health. (Natural Resources Conservation Service photo) Some 69 million acres were enrolled in the Conservation Stewardship Program in fiscal ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2015 — USDA is planning to give farmers and ranchers an extra two weeks — until March 13 — to sign up for the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP). The National Sustainable ...

Through January 17, 2014, producers interested in participating in the program may submit applications to NRCS. “The Conservation Stewardship Program encourages farmers, ranchers and forest landowners ...

The Conservation Stewardship Program is a favorite with many producers because it allows them to receive payments for actively managing, maintaining and expanding conservation activities on acreage ...

For John Wicks, farming is about a lot more than planting a seed and watching it grow. Since taking over his family’s farm after his father’s death, he has spent the last 14 years working to bring a ...

In just four years, America’s top conservationists have enrolled 50 million acres in USDA’s Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), a program that helps farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners take ...

Shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook, posts claim that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “wants American farmers to put their farmland into ‘land banks’” whereby the federal ...

The biggest farmland conservation program has shrunk dramatically since the last farm bill, with no sign Congress will change direction. A program created by the “father of modern conservation” to ...