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USDA Is Offering Incentive Payments Under CRP

Producers with Conservation Reserve Program acres are being encouraged to practice enhanced wetland and bottomland hardwood conservation. According to Farm Service Agency Deputy Administrator John Johnson, incentive payments are being offered on several practices covered under CRP.

"Bottomland hardwoods, flood plain wetlands, and non-flood plain wetlands as well as our duck nesting habitat practice," says Johnson. "Those four practices will be eligible for these new incentive payments, which will total $204 million over 10 years."

The incentive payments within the four areas are broken down into three categories.