Delayed NRCS Conservation Stewardship Program payments due to the federal government shutdown have impacted the way farmers ...

Lawmakers have removed provisions that block megafarms from taxpayer-funded conservation programs. After years wrangling over ...

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, ...

ST. PAUL - The U.S. Department of Agriculture will make available $100 million this year through the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) and although applications are accepted all year, farmers, ...

When Congress created the first version of the Conservation Stewardship Program in 2002, its author, then-Senate Agriculture Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, thought CSP might have greater public appeal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some 69 million acres were enrolled in the Conservation Stewardship Program in fiscal 2023, or about 8% of all U.S. agricultural land, according to a report by the National Sustainable Agriculture ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) opened the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) for new enrollments for federal fiscal year 2014. Producers ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is opening the Conservation Stewardship ...